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O C T O B E R / N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 8 M A C O N M A G A Z I N E | 3 7 Macon Concert Association invites you to its opening Season concert One of North America's top-tier ensembles specializing in 17th- & 18th-century repertoire performed on period instruments. Adult $25, Student $10 | Season, $80 & $40 478-301-5470 | macon365.com REBEL Monday, October 15, 2018 7:00PM Pierce Chapel, Wesleyan College MCA A sk most Americans about their impressions of Iranian women and "lighthearted" is not a word one would expect to hear. But that is exactly what photojournalist Randy H. Goodman found to be true in 2015 while working in a changing Iran. Goodman's first trip to Iran was during the Iran Hostage Crises in 1980 when she traveled with a small delegation of graduate students, a rarefied assignment for a budding photojournalist. Since then, she has returned to Iran many times and over the course of the years has captured remarkable and provocative images that reflect a change in Iran, especially in the role of women. "Iran: Women Only," an exhibition of 35 photos at Wesleyan College this fall, will challenge your perception of everyday life for women in Iran. Goodman received her first foreign assignment in 1980 as a graduate student during the occupation of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. In 1981, she returned with two colleagues on an exclusive assignment for CBS-TV News. Her third assignment in Iran came in 1983 for Time magazine, when she toured the Iran-Iraq war zone, covered breaking news and photographed Ayatollah Khomeini. To produce this exhibit, Goodman returned to Iran in 2015 to revisit people and places photographed decades earlier. Her portraits and streets scenes of women from both periods capture the sweeping socio-cultural changes symbolized by dramatic shifts in dress and lifestyle. Her black and white photographs of the early 1980s reflect the conservative values and traditions in the country. In contrast, her color images of present-day Iran show women openly testing the boundaries of the Islamic Republic's social norms. "Iran: Women Only" will be on display Oct. 16-Dec. 14 in the Porter Fine Arts Building at Wesleyan College. An opening reception and gallery talk with Goodman is planned for 6 p.m. Oct. 16. – Mary Ann Howard Exhibition examines changing role of women in Iran