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SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 2012 <br /> oil: <br /> ULILS, Og"-OR <br /> i <br /> R_ <br /> Festival to feature x <br /> p <br /> exhibits*lectures, iT <br /> panels and a <br /> community slide shove <br /> v <br /> By DAVE HART <br /> tihart @.WWSobsmer.co,m <br /> CHAPEL HILL Most of us aren',t, <br /> painters or,sculptors. Only a,tiny _...: _ <br /> handfed of people' pottery or ` <br /> create jewelry or weave fabric art.. <br /> But we.are almost all- one <br /> ua <br /> w#.or another,photographeis:; � � <br /> We snap,photos<✓1of.our families <br /> <,: ... <br /> and oui,pets,take-shots on vacs <br /> tions;record;one-holiday.gather- <br /> ing after another;Rare is the baby , <br /> whose wrinkfed-Rftle face isn't <br /> immortalized on film) nowa..= <br /> days,in a digital Me). <br /> That ubiquity,Which is more Courtesy gf John Rosenttfst ' <br /> pervasive than ever now that our---John Rosenthal's,°Ms#r'opolitan Wseunt,".dhe of the photo- <br /> telephones and computers are al.;?,,graphs included in the to Focus nhotographV festival, <br /> so cameras;is one of th e Aihgs <br /> that sots photography apart from­-,scavenger hint and an,outdoor This bens in Durham and the Jen- <br /> most other forms of art„ publicslide.shovv e ni Se iwartz Gallery in Atlanta; <br /> And it's just one of the many as= From nent'pfrot©graphels, a and colleges an&- niversities in- <br /> pects of photography that the lectors, curators;critics,educa= .eluding UNC,Duke, N.C._State, <br /> Frank.Gallery will explore in a tors and others will participate; UNC Greensboro and Fast Caroli " <br /> two-month,town-wide photogra- representing institutions includ, na..' <br /> phy'festival that opened last ing the North Carolina Museum ,_ "Part of,what we.wanted,to,do <br /> week. of Art in Raleigh and the Weather--with this is to bring a lot of people <br /> The In Focus festival will fea- spoon Museum of Art in Greens•, together,"said photographerBar- <br /> ture-exhibitions, tours, lectures, boro;galleries such as Frank,the`.bara Tyroler, who organized the <br /> panel discussions,a photographic Ackland Museum Store,Through SEE FoCUS,,PAGE BA <br />