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Visions from page 1 1 notion of surface. If Rubin's photographs of landscapes create a tangible, tactile space, her wildlife photos project an uncanny intimacy. In "Little Bittern Chick", it is as if the viewer has suddenly stum bled upon a private world, a world generally closed to the bumbling feet of man. "Conies" also has this feeling, but here we've been spotted, and now catch the glaring return of questioning, apprehensive eyes. NOT ALL OF Rubin's wildlife photos possess such a one-to-one relationship, there are also a few of the all too familiar stereotypes of birds in flight or galloping mammals. Yet a work like "Grey Heron" is a fascinating twist on an old frame, for here we are nrespntfd with lifprnllv nothing but the animal and his reflection. ^ ^: > I Spon! | Ideas' 6 I I |^misse^hou? With the exception of but two symmetric slices of river bed, the creature becomes a kind of stoic icon of the perfection of nature. A Til I HI) GROUPING of work deals with wildflowers native to Israel. Here Rubin concerns herself primarily with color, as in works such as ''Hollyhock and "Anemone (2)". In the former, the extreme close-up causes the flower to consume the entire space, with reflections of light that seem to spring from the very pores of the petals. Gail Rubin will not be remembered as a "great" photographer, yet she should be noted for working with something most naturalists with cameras never even consider, the personality behind the lens. >m. - ?u:u:? ...:n ?: i lie exinuu win uuiiuuuc uii uu^n March 27. *t^v JUbsKB fc, : ,yt %x:^-:. 1 I sored By and Issues If 5 9 3 f Gail Rubin's 'Sinai l\ wmmmmatmtmmmmmmmmtmmmmmmmmmamtammmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm LOU LOU bA^' Hartrf perse fin eve Louise House 20, 8 availo T ravel Ff( % nn /fountains' Imp ISE Lfi< ISE LflJ rience IHi ian in >n! ?ning with Lasser, Ru Ballroom, p.m. Ticke ible at the? Center. Public ?e to USC faculty c witr * uun i oe w] caught in the V dark-- 1 LRead the J Gamecock^ifl| Every Monday Wednesday Friday | >SER!!| 5SERH ?fy i ssell | fDarch I I : sn.oo! students, | xnd staff | i USC ID.