\u201cIt was a time of change. Revolution was in the air, as the song said,\u201d says Goldbaum, who went on to serve as chief photographer at \u201cEl Vocero\u201d in Puerto Rico and as a freelance photographer for Newsweek and other publications before becoming a journalism professor at Bradley University, where he was founding director of its multimedia program. Since 2003, he has taught at The Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada-Reno, where he is an associate professor of immersive media.<\/p>\n Goldbaum, who earned his degree in English at UConn before completing a master\u2019s degree in communications photography from Syracuse University, says his time at the student paper shaped his future both in journalism classes and by working with student editors that included Juliet Cassone, Richard Cohen, Dennis Hampton, Al May, and Michael Whalen.<\/p>\n \u201cI was learning that I was not just attracted to photography, I was attracted to where the action was. I wanted to be part the pivotal events of the time,\u201d he says. \u201cA lot of my career choices were influenced by mentors I had, particularly Evan Hill and John Breen of the journalism department. It was my close relationship with them that modeled my wish to become a journalism professor myself. John Breen was the faculty member who did the weekly critique with Daily Campus staff. I really loved his attitude. The way he gently chided us when we made mistakes was an inspiration for me, because later at Bradley University I became that person who did the weekly critiques with the newspaper staff at the Bradley Scout. Evan Hill was a unique professor. I looked up to him as a very wise voice and mentor in journalism education.\u201d<\/p>\n The exhibition includes prints made from the hundreds of 35mm film negatives Goldbaum created during his time at The Daily Campus. The images include \u201cProtest: Symbolic and Otherwise,\u201d in which demonstrators are shown protesting the denial of tenure to a faculty member who was involved in anti-war protests; \u201cDancers Captivate Audience,\u201d from a performance by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; \u201cWarming Hut Demonstration,\u201d depicting UConn students protesting the Vietnam War in 1967 and 1968; a 1967 performance by Ravi Shankar, the classical musician from India who introduced the sitar to George Harrison of The Beatles; and \u201cWatch That Elbow,\u201d from a women\u2019s basketball game against Springfield College in 1969, described as \u201cAction in a girl\u2019s basketball game.\u201d<\/p>\n Part of the exhibition focuses on the process of photography before the age of digital cameras. There are contact prints — a page with 35mm images of all photos on a single roll of film — with marks indicating which images would selected for use in the newspaper, along with the manila envelopes into which they were placed, identified by date and news assignment.<\/p>\n In a room off the Benton\u2019s Center Gallery where the exhibit is displayed, visitors can see an even more vivid demonstration of pre-digital photography: a darkroom with chemical trays, a photo enlarger, and a drying wire with clothespins holding photo prints. There is also the characteristic smell and sounds of the college newspaper darkroom from that era\u2013the odor of the chemicals used to make prints, and rock music. The only missing elements photographers from that era might notice are ashtrays used for incense and cigarettes, along with a rolled up towel at the bottom of the door to keep the sometimes clandestine smoke from spreading beyond the walls of the darkroom.<\/p>\n Goldbaum says documenting events on campus such as anti-war protests reflected the evolving lifestyles of the times.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople were rebelling against the war but it metastasized into rejecting many of the class norms between freshman and seniors and the interactions between men and women,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was a revolution of students demanding more independence, more control over their lifestyle, whether it was the ability to grow your hair long or to visit women in the dormitories at any hour. I was in the UConn Honors program and we did away with grades after our freshman year.\u201d<\/p>\n The experience of being a photographer on the frontline of events fed his enthusiasm for finding a way to remain there.<\/p>\n \u201cIt always made my pulse beat faster,\u201d Goldbaum says. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to miss any of the action because of the ability of photojournalists to get to places maybe off limits to others. I was able to use my student credentials, and then later working as a professional photojournalist in Puerto Rico and elsewhere, [to stay] on the frontlines of conflict and political change.\u201d<\/p>\n Goldbaum also has stayed on the leading edge of technology in his field. He started taking photos with a twin-lens camera using 2 \u00bc film but moved into 35mm film photography early as a freelancer. While teaching at Bradley, he began to use the early Apple digital cameras and created one of the first classes in digital photography.<\/p>\n Over the last decade in Nevada, he has moved his photography into virtual reality projects with websites that allow visitors to explore historic sites including ancient monuments of Ireland, a 17th century Jacobean home and estate in England, and various locations around Nevada. All of these projects can be accessed via his website.<\/a><\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/goldbaum-4.png\")
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