Lauterer Exhibit Praised As 610) By JOE DEPR1EST Sunsets and basset hounds; old houses and pretty girls; football players and tree limbs: these are some of the subjects that make up an ex hibit of photographs by Jock Lauterer now on display in Howell Hall. Lauterer has chosen what he considers his best work: ran ging from photographs of Cha pel Hill's 1964 Civil Rights marches to shots he made dur ing a recent trip to the Shen andoah Valley. The exhibit is a photogra phic song to everyday life. Lauterer's work is straightfor ward and unpretentious. Whe ther he takes an action shot at a soccer game or a shot of land meeting sky the pho tograph bears an unmistak able touch of love. "A photograph is a thought .... it must communicate," Lauterer says. What one of his photographs communicat es to one person may say something entirely opposite to Postmasters Aid By WILL BERNARDIN One thing handy about a postmaster you can always reach him by mail. And this 'reachability' mak es the North Carolina postmas ter one of the biggest assets to earthquake study in the state. Although North Carolina is txX exactly an earthquake state, like California or Alas ka, it does have the second largest fault zone in the coun try, the Brevard fault; and roughly speaking, fault zones equal earthquakes. This fault zone runs from Alabama to Virginia and once in a while still pipes up and grumbles out a song, scaring cows, breaking windows and making a larger than normal squiggle on the University's But the jiggly line doesn't tell the UNC geologists where the quake was, merely that it was. Reports do come in from other seismograp stations .holographic another and it may even say nothing. "I anybody looks at one of my photographs and likes it ... OK. But they are for me. You've got to be very selfish about it when you shoot for yourself," Lauterer says. "You must work for yourself before you work for other people." The majority of Lauterer's photographs are of "things": sky, trees, buildings, dogs and cats. Lauterer says that he is working "more and more now with people" but that having to pose shots frustrates him. Photographing people is fine with him so long as the shots are candid. Included in this exhibition is one of Lauterer's first candid shots made in Greenwich Village in 1963: a woman holding a sad-faced basset hound. Basset hounds seem to appeal to Lauterer. "They're more expressive," he says. "The greatest thing a hu man soul ever does in this telling approximately where it shook, but they don't really pinpoint the place. Geologists need to know within about 10 miles. And this is where the post master comes in. Phil Justus, assistant to the director of the seismograph station at UNC (an interest ing position since there is no director at present) says of the program to locate quake centers, "Postmasters of small towns get most of the local dope. So when we don't know where the center is, we just contact them and usual ly they can give us the in formation we need. "If he himself hasn't felt any quake - like movement, he sees plenty of people each day and can ask them what they felt." Policemen, firemen, gas sta tion operators and others may receive these letters or cars too, but the local postmaster Textbooks Paperbacks .Dictionaries GET Jul Text Counter Open For Buying From 10 am. world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. . . to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one." John Ruskin's comment on painters, written in 1856, could just as well ap ply here to Lauterer's photo graphy. Photography, Lauterer feels, is not a matter of being in the right place at the right time but seeing clearly what is always around you. Occasionally Lauterer feels the urge to get out and see new things. This urge usually hits him in the spring and when it does he is bound for the mountains. This year he spent his Easter vacation bum ming around the Shenandoah Valley on his bike. "All of a sudden I began seeing," he says. This summer Lauterer will have the opportunity to see new things with his cam era when he accompanies the UNC Glee club on its Europ ean tour. The late American novelist In Quake Study is ually easier to reach his address doesn't change. If a letter is addressed to "Post master" in any city, it will get to him even if he changed addresses. These rural geological spo kesmen reply in various and strange ways some of t h e m never felt a thing; some thought the atomic war had started. But it's interesting how ac curately the strength of an earthquake can be gauged by the sometimes unusual, but always sincere, answers. One comment was, 'I thought at first a small animal was running across the attic' Another, "It sounded as if there had been a terrific ex plosion. I was positive one or two large trailer trucks had wrecked in our driveway." No- doubt about which per son was closest to the heart of the shake from those com ents. fUl LIU TOP PRICES- AVOID LONG LINES ! SELL THEM Mm Song James A gee had some c o m ments on the Art of Seeing in an introduction to a collection of Helen Leavitt's photo graphs. Agee wrote: "The ca mera is just a machine, which recrods with impressive and as a rule cruel faithfulness what is in the eye, mind, spir it and skill of its operator to make it record ... by the artist's crative intelligence a new kind of reality is creat ed: aesthetic reality". There are wonderful things in the eye, mind, spirit and kill of ock Lauterer. One doesn't consider theories of aesthetics while examining Lauterer's photographs. Beau ty speaks for itself. Words are impotent to convey the evocative power of a photo graph of raindrops on a lake or a little tree silhouetted against a white sky. The photographs in Howell Hall are "poetry, prophecy and religion all in one" the work of an original and imaginative mind. The field research on North Carolina's earthquakes is now being conducted by Dr. J. Ro bert Butler and Dr. David E. Dunn. uhc Daily ear iHprl The Daily Tar Heel is the official news publication of the University of North Carolina and is published by stu dents daily except Mondays, examina tion periods and vacations. Offices on the second floor of Graham Memorial. Telephone numbers: editorial, sports, news 933-1011; business, cir culation, advertising 933-1163. Address: Box 1080, Chapel Hill, N. C, 27514. Second class postage paid at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, N. C. Sub scription rates: S4.50 per semester; S8 per year. Printed by the Chapel Hill Pub lishing Co., Inc., 501 W. Franklin St. Chapel Hill, N. C. The Associated Press is entitled ex clusively to the use for republication of all local news printed in this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatches. X if wm mm The Intimate pays top prices for books to be used at UNC! The Intimate buvs all other textbooks, too, as long as they are latest editions Whether used for courses or not! Includes all outlines and course studv aid hooks. English or Foreign language, and all other reference hooks, rare hooks or other hooks of any value at all. ALL. AND SELL A M Bill (Jeer gave his Last Lecture Wednesday night. He filled Morrison lounge to capacity, which meaas there were about 40 people who heard him. Because the pro fessor who claimed he had nothing profound to say, who was just "sharing some thoughts with some friends," had in reality a great deal to say to his audience. He spoke about individual ism, education and the stale and the nation. His overrid ing theme and his advice to everyone is "Don't Be Afraid of Change." He said he was constantly appalled "that some people fear change more than anything in the world. Only those individuals in society who can adapt to the chang ing scene can lead useful liv es, for themselves and for so ciety." Geer, who teaches modern civilization, spoke with genu ine emotion when he said, "We have today the capaxity to After 11 years of looking, Timothy Glancy Finney finally found a beer he and his growing circle of friends could really rally 'round. ANHEUSER-BUSCH. INC. . ST. LOUIS NEWARK . LOS ANGELES TAMPA . HOUSTON rs) 0) John H. Jennrich" atter Of Opinio: obliterate humanity, and we may very well do it. Geer questioned the South's maintenance of a rural atti tude, an attitude of vigorous individualism stemming from the old frontier days. "I am a firm believer in individualism," Geer said. "Nevertheless, individualism in a twentieth century industrial society of large population has to adapt itself to the condi tions of today." He specifical ly opposed the South's attitude against organized labor as a part of its modern industrial life. Geer said that a good uni versity must have many minds to provide a variety of ideas. "We should not shut off the world," he said. "How can we possibly justify being pro vincial and local in our out look?" Geer said there are many outworn cliches of education, one of them being the sacred ness of a classical, literary o o EARLY, AT education. You should "edu cate yourselves for the future, not for the present or the past," he said. "The world moves very fast," Geer said, "and if I were you. in my education I'd move with it." Turning to the concept of the state and nation, Geer said the idea of states rights is not valid. "The federal govern ment has generally been reluc tant to take powers and re sponsibilities from the states." he said. "But generally speak ing, when it does, the nation al government has been more efficient than the state units. Therefore, Americans, being practical people, have turned more and more to the cen tral government for aid." Geer said. 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On the international scene, Geer said the idea of going to war. is outmoded. "It's un thinkable that we have a ma jor war," he said, "and it's dangerous to play with so called minor wars. It's a hor rible thing to confront an au tomobile wreck. How lightly do you deal with the thought of war in a nuclear age?" he asked. "Isn't it as outmod ed as the Greek gods or the idea that the world is flat?" Geer concluded that he is convinced that "man is good at heart and wishes for him self and others in the world only the greatest good and a better life." rail Vrlrrdjy' Anrr 41. British princess 42. Observes 44. P. I. tree x 15. Permit 46. Little child S Vj 9 lO 4 P 119 17 10 21 24- 25 2t 21 V7A 35 5b 59 40 4 42 S-20 I-

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