ENTERTAINMENT
I
GOING PLACES I
WEEK OF
APRIL 14-20
JEWISH EVENTS
READERS THEATER
Maple/Drake Jewish
Community Center,
Sunday, admission.
967-4030.
VIVACE MUSIC
SERIES
Birmingham Temple,
28611 W. 12 Mile,
Farmington Hills, New
World String Quartet,
Sunday, admission.
647-4632 or 288-3953.
JIMMY PRENTIS
MORRIS JEWISH
COMMUNITY
CENTER
15110 W. 10 Mile, Oak
Park, Wisla Song and
Dance Ensemble,
"Entertainment from
Poland," Sunday,
admission.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Caren Nederlander calls her works impressionist photographs.
Pilot
Artist
Caren Nederlander relies on her
Painter's sensibilities' for her
photography.
VICTORIA BELYEU DIAZ
Special to The Jewish News
I
f you're looking for
photographer Caren
Nederlander's studio,
you might try the Berk-
shire Hills in
Massachusetts, an azalea
trail in the deep South, the
streets of San Francisco, a
wooded spot in northern
Maine, the banks of the
Potomac, a country lane in
Michigan.
Wherever there's color and
lots of it in the great outdoors,
you'll find this fifth-
generation Detroiter, with
her trusty Nikon FE, and
pockets full of Kodacolor film.
You won't catch her setting
anything up on a tripod,
though, or asking any of her
subjects to "hold it." Expect,
instead, to find her snapping
up local color literally as she
moves — hiking through the
countryside, or travelling
from place to place via car,
train, or, if the situation calls
for it, horseback.
The shimmering, light-
dappled photos that result
from her unusual modus
operandi, filled as they are
with softly-blurred and clear
colors, resemble impressionist
paintings. In fact, she calls
her work "impressionist
photographs," referring to the
style she's come to only
recently.
The field of photography
itself is relatively new to
Nederlander. A former
painter who studied at the
University of Michigan, her
knowledge of photography
was virtually nil, she main-
tains, until three years ago,
when her 23-year marriage to
theater mogul Robert
Nederlander ended.
"lb think I was in Africa
once, and never took a single
picture!' says the diminutive
Nederlander, who lives in
Bloomfield Hills in a vast
Georgian colonial home she
designed and decorated
herself. "We used to travel all
over the world, but my hus-
band always took the pic-
tures. I never really had
anything to do with it."
Her sons were already away
at college when the marriage
ended, she says. "So, I decid-
ed to travel, and to just enjoy
taking pictures for a change!'
Soon, Nederlander dis-
covered she had a real love for
the art of photography and,
during one of her frequent
visits to New York, decided to
enroll at the International
Center of Photography near
her Manhattan apartment.
"I was doing pretty much
what everybody else was try-
ing to do, though — photojour-
nalism. You know, take a pic-
ture of what you see!"
She happened on her
district impressionistic style
almost by accident, she says,
during one October picture-
taking weekend in Aspen,
Cola
"Later, looking through all
the pictures I'd taken, I threw
out one that was blurred — I'd
shot it from a moving car,"
says Nederlander. "Then,
some time later, I happened
to glance down into the
wastebasket, and see it there,
and I thought it was
think a picture
should be
beautiful,
something that
makes you feel
good when you
look at it.
gorgeous! From that time, I've
always tried to reproduce the
technique!'
Now, Nederlander has put
together 16 of her impres-
sionist photographs in a book
entitled Changing Views, and
is looking forward to the first
showing of her work, a benefit
for the Cranbrook Academy of
UNIVERSITY
PRODUCTIONS
Frieze Bldg., State and
Washington, Ann Arbor,
"$5 Revue," an evening
of songs and skits to
benefit a scholarship
fund for U-M musical
theatre students, today
and Saturday, admission.
764-0450.
COMEDY
COMEDY CASTLE
593 Woodward, Berkley,
Bobby Slayton, today
and Saturday; Billy
Elmer, Tuesday through
April 22, admission.
542-9900.
THEATER
MEADOW BROOK
THEATRE
Oakland University,
Rochester, Quilters, now
through April 23,
admission. 377-3300.
PERFORMANCE
NETWORK
408 W. Washington, Ann
Arbor, India Song, now
through April 30,
admission. 663-0681.
BIRMINGHAM
THEATRE
211 S. Woodward,
Birmingham, Broadway
Bound, now through
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