Photographer was figure on local art, film scene

CHAMPAIGN – Scott Mutter was a familiar figure among artists, revolutionaries and hippies as the 1960s blurred into the 1970s.

A member of the leftist Students for A Democratic Society who studied Chinese with revolutionary zeal, Mr. Mutter decided film would be his instrument to foment revolution.

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