PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY.
MONTHLY MEETING. 9 •The monthly meeting <?f the Christchurch Photographic Society was held on Thursday, Mr G. A. Fraser presiding. Mr W. A. Taylor delivered a lantern lecture showing trie various applications of photography ranging from art and the production of purely pictorial prints to science where ifc daily furthered the advance of medicine, astronomy, crime detection, and numerous other branches. The speaker also covered the work in the process department of an illustrated paper, and showed how the photographic print was copied and reproduced as a half-tone block. Not the least interesting of the slides were those showing the equipment of the Process Department of The Pbbss many years ago. At the conclusion of his talk jfr Taylor was accorded a hearty vote of thanks. . . ' The competition print for August, a copy of the society's syllabus., was not very well "supported; ?o, instead of the usual judging, an informal discussion was held on various topics of a general photographic nature.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20630, 20 August 1932, Page 8
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