Al2-Sunday News, September 7, 1980

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Photography as art in North Van exhibit

By OLGA RUSKIN

Images in Color, a show
and sale of color
photographs by North
Vancouver photographer
Ken Oxenham, will open

Wednesday. September 10
at 7:30 p.m. in the North
Van City Hall gallery.
Sponsored by the North Van
Community Arts Council,
the show continues to
October 8.

The 20 photographs in the

show are described by
Oxenham as natural ab
Stracts with a  design-

orientation. Oxenham, who
was born in North Van and
raised in West Van,
graduating from West Van
Secondary in 1971, decided
to take up photography as a
career in 1974.

He graduated with a B.A.
from a leading school of
photography, the Brooks
Institute of Photography in
Santa Barbara, in 1978.
While at Brooks he became
interested in the art of the
photo.

“Photography is an art
form in itself. A good photo
should have some type of
impact on the viewer. It
should reach out and grab
the audience. Shadow and
highlights can be used to
create this impact for a three
dimensional effect. The use
of strong bold lines to

carefully bring the viewer
into the photograph is an
essential technique a good
picture must employ,” says
Oxenham.

“But a good photograph
should be pre-concetved in
the mind before being et-
ched onto film.”

Oxenham uses a 4X5 View
camera and a Hassenblad
camera in his work. He is
also a freelance commercial
photographer and has done
work in this capacity for
pubhcations such as Western
Living, Vancouver Calendar
and Vancouver Guidelines.

Public interest in
photography as an art form
has boomed in the past
decade. A greater number of
people are turning to
collecting photographic
prints as the cost of other art
forms increases, notes Time
Magazine in its September 3,
1979 issue.

Art photographs can also
increase in value.
Photographs by the late Paul
Strand have been sold for as
much as $12,000 a print.
points out Time.

The public is invited to
attend the opening of Images
in Color from 7:30 p.m. to
9:30 p.m. on September 10.
The hours of the North Van
City Hall gallery at 141 West
14th Ave. are 8:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday.

“STAIRWAY” — a picture taken by Ken Oxenham in Vancouver earlier this year — provides a dramatic illustration
of the possibilities of photography as abstract art.

GOOD YEAR AHEAD

Lynn Valley scouting program set

he 1980-81 season
promises to be an = out-
standing one for boys in the
Lynn Valley community who
enroll with the 19th Seymour
Cub Pack and Scout Troop,
sponsored by the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day

Saints.
The cub pack excelled
during 1979, under pack

leader Akela Ruth Leask,
defeating twelve other teams
for top honors in a first aid
contest. They also gained
recognition for excellence in

Courses in
English for

immigrants
heavily in
demand

Courses for
want to
English
demand

people who
learn to. speak
are so much in
that Capilano
College received over 70
inquines this summer in
spite of the fact that they are
not advertising such classes
As a result, English as a
Second Language is being
offered in four sections this
fall for Vietnamese refugees
and others who do not speak
Enghsh Scheduled — par
ticularly to accommodate

working people, the classes
will be held evenings and
weekends starting im-
mediately in September and
continuing for 14 weeks

English as a Second
Language ts an oral course in
which students are placed
according (to their speaking
ability. Many of the students
who took this course during
the day this spring have been
able to) find jobs
graduating

since

Two classes will be held
Tuesday and Thursday
evenings from 7:00 to 10:00
and one class each will be
held Saturday and Sunday
for six hours. All classes will
be held at the College
campus and the fee for four
months is $25

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