The Indiana Gazette, Wednesday, June 8, 2016

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Exhibit features photography of David Young “A Passion for Light� celebrates decades of photographer David Young’s work and accomplishments. The exhibition opens with a public reception Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. Hosted by the University Museum, the exhibit will be shown and reception will be held in Kipp Gallery, located in Sprowls Hall on the corner of 11th and Grant streets. Admission is free and the exhibit runs through June 30. Young, a retired IUP Communications Media Department professor of photography, recalls that at some point during the time he was earning his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in English and serving in the Army during the Korean War, he gave a camera to his wife, Beverly, for her birthday. However, it was he who became an avid photographer and, in the 1960s, began exhibiting. His first prize for his work was a People’s Choice Award at the museum in Columbus, Ohio. Young began his career at IUP in 1968 as an instructor in the English department. After 10 years, he

was invited to join the communications department to teach photography, a position he held until his retirement in 1989. A student once asked Young what qualified him to teach photography, being a man with all his degrees in English. Young’s reply was, “My teacher was experience; I made all the mistakes.� Inspired and mentored by Ansel Adams after a visit to Adams’ Yosemite studio, Young shares Adams’ disciplined and meticulous style, carefully crafting each exposure rather than shooting multiple rolls of film. Co-curator Ron Juliette, also a photographer and retired IUP professor, describes Young as “a photographer in the truest sense of the word. He possesses a master’s knowledge of its history, physics, optics, chemistry and aesthetics, as well as its context in the larger world of the arts and literature. Each of these influences comes together in his photographs. You see the vision of other great artists in how he masters light and composition, in the subtle details in highlight and shadow, and in the

simplicity of form and texture. His early devotion to Adams and the zone system of photography defined his life’s work as dedicated, disciplined and inspirational.� Young’s photographs, having drawn praise in local and regional exhibitions, can be found in museums and private collections throughout the area, including the University Museum at IUP and the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Loretto. A selection of photographs arecurated by Beverly Young, Juliette and William Double. Gallery hours are Monday and Tuesday from noon to 5 p.m. and Thursday from 2 to 7 p.m. This exhibition is supported, in part, by the Indiana Art Association, the College of Fine Arts at IUP and the Student Cooperative Association at IUP. The University Museum also receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts administered through the Pennsylvania Rural Arts Alliance. For more information, visit www.iup.edu/museum or www. iup.edu/livelyarts or call (724) 357-2397.

THIS PHOTO is among the works of David Young that will be displayed at Kipp Gallery, Sprowls Hall, at IUP until June 30. Submitted photo

Once a sure thing, sequels slumping at box office By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer

NEW YORK — Sure things in Hollywood are beginning to look like an endangered species. Sequels, for years the industry’s most “can’t miss� assets, are struggling at the box office this year. The downturn, which continued over the weekend with the low turnout for “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows,� calls into question one of the industry’s bedrocks of bankability. Roughly two decades ago, the sequel — once largely seen as a blatant and disrespected cash grab — threw off its stigma. Comic-book serials and long-running franchises stretched the sequel business into a new realm of round-the-clock production and box-office records. That era is nowhere close to ending; the most popular franchises have plans in place to last the next three presidential elections. But the recent sequel slump suggests that Hollywood may have become too quick on the sequel trigger — that maybe not every profitable movie deserves a second chapter, that the world might not have been craving another “Ninja Turtles� or “Zoolander.� No studio executive today could get away with not ordering up a sequel to a $1 billion-grossing movie like 2010’s “Alice in Wonderland.� Yet the drop was staggering for the badly reviewed “Alice Through the Looking Glass,� which has made just $51.4 million domestically in three weeks. “It’s hard to argue with $1 billion and that’s what I think keeps studios’ finger on the greenlight: ‘Press that button. Press it, press it. We just made $1 billion. Let’s go, let’s go,’� says Jeff Bock, senior box office analyst for Exhibitor Relations. “And at some point, that just runs into the ground. Even audiences can take only so much Vin Diesel.� Diesel’s “Fast and Furious� franchise is one of the more astounding success stories in recent box office history. Last year’s seventh installment topped $1.5 billion worldwide; naturally, there are plans for eight, nine and 10. In such an environment, the fast-paced greenlighting of sequels isn’t just good business, it’s like minting money. Of the top 10 films of 2016 thus far, nine are sequels, spin-offs or reboots. And while sequels may have recently dipped, originality is cratering. Last weekend, the romance “Me Before You� performed well with $18.7 million, but the well-received Andy Samberg comedy “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping� flopped with just $4.7 million. Still, “sequel underperforms� has become the steady drumbeat of 2016. “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice� has made $872.2 million globally, but the $250 million film has struggled to turn a profit for Warner Bros. and been

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coming more essential to sequels. “It’s a wake-up call,� says Dergarabedian. “It says to the industry just because something did well, you can’t exploit it. You have to enhance it. It has to be additive if you want to make a great sequel.� The most glaring exception to the trend has been “Captain America: Civil War,� the highestgrossing film of the year at

THE SEQUEL “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows� opened at $35.5 million, according to comScore, close to half of what the first film opened to in 2014. roundly lambasted by critics and moviegoers alike. “X-Men: Apocalypse,� “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising,� “Ride Along 2� and “The Huntsman: Winter’s War� have all done worse than their preceding films. Bock calls the recent sequel swoon a trend that should “cause panic� within the Hollywood studio system. It is, after all, a system currently built on the sequel business; a sequel problem for Hollywood would be like if cars went out of favor for Detroit. “The Conjuring 2� and “Now You See Me 2� will brave any sequel-itis this week. “Finding Dory,� “Independence Day: Resurgence,� “Ghostbusters,� “Star Trek Beyond� and “Jason Bourne� are all on tap this summer. Pixar’s “Finding Dory� — a sequel to 2003’s “Finding Nemo� — is widely expected to be among the season’s biggest hits, and perhaps benefits from the 13-year break since the original. “There is something to be said for absence makes the heart grow fonder,� says Bock. “Studios need to realize that in the long term, you can kill a franchise really quickly, like the ‘Spiderman’ one, by throwing out films that are not near and dear to the hearts of audiences.� If there’s a silver lining in

the underperforming sequels, it’s that few of them have been in franchises as blue-chip as “Spider-Man,� which floundered in a tooquick reboot. It’s not altogether shocking that another “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,� a Tim Burton-less “Alice� and “Zoolander 2� weren’t enticing to moviegoers; some of them are just plain bad.

Critical reaction has never been a key component of the sequel business; mediocre reviews did nothing to slow “Jurassic World� from becoming one of the highest-grossing films of all time last year. But Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for comScore, believes that with social media speeding up reaction, quality is be-

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