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Show Photography exhibit slated to open at Braithwaite Gallery Orland, Cole Weston, Don Worth, Al Weber and other noted American photographers who have recorded the stark natural beauty of the Mono Basin wilderness area east of Yosemite. The exhibit tells the visual story of a magnificent ancient lake in a precarious state of preservation, threatened by diversions of water to southern California. Mono Lake, the single focus of the exhibit, is portrayed with incredible diversity. Individual approaches are revealed in artistic intent as well as technical implementation. im-plementation. The exhibit also presents an overview of photographic processes used by artists from the late 19th century to the present, including albumen, gum, silver, color, bleached, toned and hand-colored prints. The variety of the landscape land-scape and geological formations, seasonal changes and wildlife are seen in an extended content through aerial, underwater, and microscopic photography. "At Mono Lake" is on loan from The Art Museum Association, San Francisco, and has been organized bv Slephen Johnson, Don Worth and Al Weber, under the auspices ol the Friends ol Ihe Farth Foundation, Sierra Club Foundation, the National Audubon Society and Ihe Mono Lake Committee. The exhibit wi''. inn through Aug. 28. Special extended gallery hours (luring the Flah Shakespearean Festival are weekdays 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturdays 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Sundays 1 p.m. to (i p.m. CEDAR CITY - The Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery. Southern Utah State College, Cedar City, announced recently that a major exhibit of photography, "At Mono Lake," will open with a public reception, Friday evening, 7 to 9 p.m. The exhibit was made possible by Friends of the Gallery. According to Prof. Thomas A. Leek, SUSC art curator, "At Mono Lake" is a unique collection of images by some of America's most renown photographers. Included are works by Edward S. Curtis, Brett Weston, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Ted |