PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT


AROUND AND ABOVE/LANDSCAPE AND SYMBOL

	"Over the Door" and in the garden are the subjects of an
exhibit of the works of noted New York photographer John Yang.  Around
and Above/Landscape and Symbol can be seen at the University of
Virginia's School of Architecture, Campbell Hall, Exhibition Room A,
Feb. 25 through March 28. 

	Yang's close observation of the streetscapes of Manhattan and
its ornamentation of buildings adorned with the images of gods,
youths, maidens, cherubs, animals, plants, monsters, and mythological
beasts are the subjects of photos from his book, "Over the Door,"
published by the Princeton Architectural Press. Yang's landscape
architecture subjects are photographed with a panoramic Cirkut Camera
manufactured in 1903 in Rochester, N.Y. Movement of the camera and
film is synchronized. The camera rotates, powered with a spring which
is wound before each shot. Photographs and negatives range up to
six-and-a-half feet long. 

	Yang's landscape photographs are in a number of public
collections of photography including the Museum of Modern Art,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Museum of American Art, and the
Chasanoff Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

	The exhibit is open to the public 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday.  For more information contact the School of
Architecture at (804) 924-7575.
	

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February 24, 1997


START DATE:  Feb. 25, 1997
KILL DATE:     March 28, 1997