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The Romance Theater Book

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THE INTRODUCTION:

Starting out, I struggled to find the best way to show the need for continued support of the Romance.

I thought that I should find and photograph every flaw, every chipped wall, every broken fixture and appeal to viewers with guilt. This would not have been the best approach.

Although I did not try to aggrandize the theater by avoiding every flaw, my thought was to show the greatness of its history, the progress of its present and the hope for its future.

The Romance, although not in its prime, still means something and has great importance for the city and the people of Rexburg.

Its beauty has captivated the hearts of young and old. I wanted to convey that by telling some of those stories with this book.

Although I only focus on a few, I know you are reading this book because the theater has touched you in some way and you have a story of your own.

Yes, it is expensive to sustain a 100 year-old building like the Romance, but these buildings and their stories are important for the future, our future.

I hope that in some way this book helps you to see that this theater has come a long way after being saved, and yet, it still has a long way to go.

With your support by donations of money and service, the Romance Theater will once again be the jewel of Rexburg.

 

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Day 30

Today was another low key Saturday. My day started off with a feature story about a therapeutic ranch that rescues and trains horses, it was a challenging experience because it was new however it was really fun and a great change in scenery. The kids that I was working with in these photos were a hoot, totally okay with the camera and really fun to work with. I’ve found that I really like working with kids because they are usually less camera shy than adults especially when they have their friends around; and when they hear you are from the paper all they want is to be in that photo. Maybe it’s just my inner kid feeling at home. Maureen wanted me to get 5 shots to go with the story since it would be running Monday and that is usually a pretty thin paper.

Next, and still in Hayden, there was a Girl Scout’s automotive 101 class that we were doing a story about. It was less about the class and more about the girls in the scout troop… these were all older girls, high school juniors and seniors who had been in this troop since kindergarten and elementary school.

Lastly, there was a GOP Lincoln day dinner going on at the resort. This was fun, but it ended up being a waiting game because our information was wrong. I was told that the keynote speaker was going to be going on at 6pm, when in reality the dinner started at 6 and the keynote speaker didn’t get up to speak until 9:15pm… it was kind of a fun party though. There was a lot of auction items and raffle items, mainly a gun raffle, I thought that was a little stereotypical of them, but it made me laugh anyway.

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IS DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY ART?

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There are those people out there who when they see documentary photography, or any photography for that matter, they say that it isn’t art. The only reason that I have been able to come up with for this reaction is that they must be unhappy with life. Documentary photography is a snippet of life. Regardless of whether it was intended to be beautiful/”artistic” or not doesn’t really matter. What matters is that we look long enough to stretch ourselves so that we can see the beauty that is there.  These are humans; humans are beautiful. They are children of the almighty, the greatest artist. If the creation of the Master’s hand isn’t art or beautiful, I don’t know what is.