THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2002
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 3A
Exhibitsheds new light on common Polaroids
By Nathan Dayani ndayani@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
If image is everything, then patrons of the Spencer Museum of Art won't be disappointed by the focus of an upcoming exhibit.
Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography comprises about 80 images and opens Saturday.
Andrea Norris, director of the museum, said the exhibit featured unique approaches to using the common medium of Polaroid photography in an artistic context.
"It might expand their mind about what photography is," Norris said.
With subjects ranging from Louis Armstrong to the American landscape, the exhibit will cover a variety of subjects, said John Pultz, curator of photography at the museum.
Pultz said the exhibit's art generally came from three models of cameras, including the SX-70 Polaroid. Artists featured in the exhibit often exposed that camera's pictures to heat or pressed on the pictures to change its colors, he said.
"They also liked it for doing collages where they look at a scene and break it into individual pictures," Pultz said.
Some of the pictures in the exhibit were taken from large cameras that produced 20-inch-
Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography opens Saturday at the Spencer Museum of Art. The exhibit will feature about 80 images created with Polaroid photography. Above: photo by Ansel Adams
by-24-inch color photographs, Pultz said. He said those photographs often covered studio subjects such as still life portraits.
Norris and Pultz said photography was an important medium for artistic expression.
"There's something very immediate about it that speaks to contemporary experience," he said. "A lot of photographers use their medium to be about perception and how they see a given scene or a given moment," he said.
The exhibit features works of several well-known artists.
Andy Warhol self portrait
including Ansel Adams, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. The exhibit will be in the museum's Kress Gallery and run until March 16, 2003.
— Edited by Katie Teske
Students lie low over break
By Justin Henning jhenning@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Students stuck in Lawrence over the break may find themselves stuck in a holiday rut.
Aside from the occasional basketball game, activities are at a minimum. But for some students, that's what winter break is all about.
With school out of session from Dec. 21 to Jan. 16, the University of Kansas has only a few of its student bodies left in town, the rest with their family or friends or traveling the world.
Stranded students take refuge with their in-town friends and family or end up in McCollum Hall, the only residence hall open over the break to house students.
"Take advantage of it being quiet here and not as busy.I'm going to rest up and hang
out."
Alicia Sanson Hashinger Hall resident assistant
It is up to the individual to make the most of their time in Lawrence, said Eric Caughey, Lawrence junior. He said he went to a lot of movies and spent time at the gym and Clinton Lake over the long break.
"I've lived here for nine years, and basically I just sit around," he said. "It's kind of boring."
Off campus, there's the night life.
Places such as The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., and the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St., offer just as many concerts and drink specials as they do any other week of the year.
But without the normal semester crowds, students may prefer to stay at home.
"Take advantage of it being quiet here and not as busy," said Alicia Sanson, Hashinger Hall resident assistant. The Phillipsburg sophomore said she would go home for a week and spend the rest of the break in Lawrence.
Like her summers here, she plans to be with friends and enjoy not having to study.
"I'm going to rest up and hang out," she said.
- Edited by Sarah Hill
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