University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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Through Their Eyes: NCN Contest Strange things can happen when a photographer peers through the view finder of a camera. A good photographer can do much more than record images of surface reali- ty. A good photographer ' s chief tool is not the camera, but the imagina- tion. It has been said that imagina- tion is the power to see that which is there, an ability that most of us don ' t seem to have or seldom use. A good photographer can also use the camera to create realities. The mask of a shadow, a slightly different angle or moment and great people appear small, the small ap- pear to be great, lies appear to be great truths and the simplest truth is made false. This was the first annual Michi- ganensian contest, one that we hope will become a yearly institution that will regularly bring out the best in student photography. Local mer- chants who share that hope supplied prizes to contest winners. This contest was meant to be a showcase for these realities, both seen and created through the lens of a camera. They were photographed by the students and people you walked with daily, never knowing that they regularly see a world which many of us only catch an oc- casional glimpse of. 13

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FAR LEFT: First Place, Color, Linda Garnets. TOP RIGHT: Third Place, Black and White, Olivier Carduner. BOTTOM CENTER: Honorable Mention, Russell Boberge. BOTTOM RIGHT: Honorable Mention, Nicholas Smith. 15