Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC March 1972 Daily Egyptian 1972 3-4-1972 The aiD ly Egyptian, March 04, 1972 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_March1972 Volume 53, Issue 102 Recommended Citation , . "The aiD ly Egyptian, March 04, 1972." (Mar 1972). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 1972 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in March 1972 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. • Baturday Magazine of the 'Daily 'Egyptian ~. Saturday. M/JICh 4. 1972-Vo/. 53. No. 102 Southern Illinois University .~ Becoming recognized as an art stimluls. photography has become very much with u~ . This silk screen print by David Gilmore is only one direction photography is heading. See story on page 2. .. • The deep religious faith of Southern Illinois is caught in Itlis monument to God in Goo­ fry, Illinois. (Photo by C. William Horrell) • in one visual image. C. William Horrell sums up the future of this Southern illinois town. whose forefathers were fooking ahead when they named it. Photography as Seen hy Photographers By John Burningham of a projectile or an abstract represen· chooses his own colors and their camera and the photographic process­ Staff Writer tation to an artist. placement. Gilmore defined his silk multiple exposure, high contrast film, Three faculty members of SlU's screen prints as "an abstraction, one slow shutter speeds and out of focus Photography has evolved from the Department . of Cine ma and step further from reality." images." Swedlund maintains that the time when Nicephore Niepce made the Photography, C. William Horrell, David manipulation of the image should be Gilmore and Charles Swedlund, are as Horrell, who is known to his students first successful photograph in 1826 on a as "Doc," classifies himself as a done in the camera, and not the light sensitive plate, to now when different as night is to day in their ap­ " straight photographer or mass com­ darkroom. proach to photography. photographs are taken on the moon by municator using the documentary ap­ visiting astronauts. Gilmore, a youthful curly haired proach." Swedlund explained that this ex­ photographer, is also a car nut. If perimenting with the im~g~ " is ':he fun Niepce's first photograph took an ex­ Horrell said of his aim in posure of about 8 hours, as compared to you' ve ever seen a funny looking 3- in photOlZraDbv." It 15 m this . ex­ wheeled car driving around campus, photography, "I want to share with perimenting with ~hotography that exposures of a split second possible other people, that which interests me." today. you've seen Gilmore. He is one of ein Swedlund produces images that please In his documentary work, Horrell him, his goal in photography. Equipment wise, the photographer's elite group of less than 80 owners of a 3- wheeled Messerschmitt in this country. photographs a passing life style. job has been made easier. Necessary paraphernalia now weights only a few Gilmore said of his work, " I try to put In "Land Between the Rivers," a In looking at the nudes of Swedlund, what I feel about the subject in my book which he co-authored, to be for which he is nationally k.n0Wll, it is . pounds, as compared to the hundred or work. " hard to escape their psychological con­ more pounds of necessary equipment published this summer by the SIU during the early days of photography. In a photographic exhibition recently Press, Horrell shows the disappearing nontations. Each photograph is both <­ on display in the Communications aspects of Southern Illi.nois. pleasing to look at while at .the same· Photogra phs are very much with us, Building, Gilmore had a fine collection time a complexly suggestive sym­ in both the media and the arts. Through of silk screen prints, .. uttle narratives A display of Horrell's work is now on bolism. the years photog raphy has become a n from movies," shot off a television Display in the north wing of the Com­ munications Building. ar t. rather than just a mec.hanicaI screen, front yard shrubs, archery Swedlund will be having a display in recording device. targets and false color prints. Swedlund, the bearded member (l ~ the Communications Building early To different people, photography Gilmore in his si.lk screen prints, of the trio, said, " I work in a completely next quarter. His display should be well means a variety of things. To the scien­ which the front cover is an example, 'unclassical way,' using as instruments worth while if it lives up to his past tist. it can be the recording of the fli ght used a " straight forward image" but of discovery, many of the facets of the work. Page 2. Daily Egyptian. March 4. 1972 • I~ Ufe is to be fortified by many friend­ ships-to love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. Sydney Smith (Photo by Charles Swedlund) Shot off a television screen. this photo compresses the time of a movie into one visual expression. (Photo by David Gilmore) Through photographing the same scene three times on the same negative but tilting the camera slightly each time. this visual expression seems to give motion to a still picture. (Photo by Charles SWedlund) DIlly EgyrUI. MM:h 4. 1972. F'1u13 H ~ . (I Ii . "t CATV Employs SIU Grads Cablevision Child of the Media By Chuck Hutchcraft his wife " pictures with her radio." Radio and Television have been busy Staff Writer Parsons went searching all over Clat­ developing a co-operative effort in this sop County Ore. , with signal-survey area. The Firs t Inte rnational Cable equipme nt, for the signals of a For spring quarter, journalism is of­ Television Conference will he conduc­ television station 125 mileS away in fering two courses tailored specifically < ted at Ca nnes, F rance on March 5 to 10. Seattle, Wash. for cablevision: J-449 - Cable Repor­ With this event., the new " babv" of He selected an antenna site on the ting; and J-325 - Telecommunications. communications reaches manhoOd. roof of two-story hotel in Astoria, where The former course has 23 registered There is a direct relationship between he discovered a " fairly reliable but not students, and the latter has 17. Radio­ this Cannes internationa l conference a very strong signal" - as related by E. Television plans to offer two more cour­ and a new " Man Abou t Town" ... seen Strafford Smith in Televis ion Magazi ne ses in cablevision, starting with fall more a nd more frequently in Carbon­ in Sept. 1967. quarter. dale .. where ever the action is. After he developed what he con­ Journalism first offered its You see him working with a camera sidered a " wa tcha ble" picutre, P a rsons cablevision courses during the winter atop a tripod. The camera is a little deve loped a " three-tubed send ing larger tha n a home movie ca mera. unit., ·' a nd ex tended the service to the Close by is a black box . It looks like it hotel lob by a nd a music store nearby. could be a tape recordel'. This ma n a nd his eq uip ment are According to Smith, Parsons' :;ervice becoming a common s ight in Carbon­ wa s then extended throughout the rest dale a nd other communities across the of the community. There was a charge of 5100 for each installation. Cablevision had been " born." In the next year, the number of CATV " systems" numbered 21. The nex t yea r tha t number a lmost tripled. By 1960, there were 875 (Cablevision ) system in the United States. As of .June, 1971 , there were 2,832, a nd the nu mber is growi ng rapidly. Today the cablevision system is basically the same as it was 23 yea rs ago. The important " new development" is loca l origination of progra m materia l. A CATV station has a strong antenna to pick up igna ls of broadcasting net­ works a nd nearby a nd distant television stations. The signal is transmitted to a cable called the coaxial cable. It is a pencil­ size cable tllat carries 12 or more Marvin Rimerman stations. (In the future, some CATV people predict that this cable will be able to carry up to 80 stations.) term, 1971. Seventeen students who The signal is carried by the coaxial have completed the courses now have cable right to the viewers' sets, jobs in the cablcvision industry. somewhat similiar to a telephone line. A local syste m can pipe local Newapapere Buyiag CATV origination prog rams-programs Ul3t ' Gene Kois the CATV system itself produces-into this cable. Newspapers are rapidly becoming And herein lies the great potential for country. And so is the product which he big investors in the CATV industry. students about to enter the com­ Eight per cent of the cable systems in is busy creating. munica tions fi e ld . Broadcas ting The product is called "Cablenews the United States are already owned by Maga zine estimates Ul3t3,OOO plus new newspapers. This situation has created local origination." jobs will be created by the cablevision This ma n a nd hi sma ll camera work jobs for a new type of journalist - a medium during the next 10 years. At a classification known as the " Com­ in an industry tha t has grown by 35 time when the job market is " tight" times the size it was just 20 years ago.