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GETTING SUBJECTS TO POSE FOR PHOTOGRAPHS IS always a tough job. But award- winning photographer James Balog had a special problem in shooting the pictures for this week's cover story on animal intelligence. He had to coax a fidgety seven-year-old chimpanzee named Sally to sit motionless in the pose of Auguste Rodin's classic bronze sculpture The Thinker. Why The Thinker? Because, explains Balog, "it makes such a strong, symbolic statement of consciousness, awareness and studied thought...
...conquer her stage fright. Dogged by a history of erratic performances, she could be her own worst enemy if she suffers a small slip early in the competition and loses her concentration. Behind the scenes, Onodi's precompetition jitters can be comical. "Henni always forgets something," says teammate Ildiko Balog, "like her leotard or her competition number." But if she stays calm and summons some hey-look-at-me showmanship, she could hit gold. At 4 ft. 10 in., her lithe, well-proportioned frame creates the illusion of greater height, and her floor routine, set to West Side Story, offers...
SURVIVORS by James Balog (Abrams; $49.50). The Florida panther and other endangered fauna are placed in the unaccustomed atmosphere of a studio, where they sit for their portraits. Suffused with an eerie light, they take on the dignity and importance of icons and give the matter of survival a fresh urgency and new focus...
Other TIME photography award winners this spring include Catherine Leroy, Ralph Morse, Christian Mouchet, Regis Bossu, Robin Moyer, Selwyn Tait, James Balog and Matt Mahurin, who won N.P.P.A.-U.M.S.J. Awards of Excellence in various categories; and Dennis Brack, who won the White House News Photographers Association first prize in the Insiders Washington category with his portrait of ex-White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan...
...assignment was 1,300 acres of prairie land near Joliet, Ill. "The prairie is beautiful to a botanist or an agronomist, but it's difficult to show to the average person pictorially," says Morrill. "The beauty is in the details, not the overall look of the land." James Balog, who specializes in nature photography, was stumped at first by the arid terrain of the 280 acres near the Keyhole Reservoir in Wyoming. Then, on a hunch, he waited for nightfall, when a rising moon provided an intriguing mix of shadow and light. The result, like the five other pictures...