EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21578, 14 September 1935, Page 13

EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS

N.Z. INTER-CLUB COMPETITION

If an" tendency exists to fqrget that photoeraphy is an art and to think of it. merely as a .ncans of recording -.cenes and events, the New Zealand ! nter-club exhibition of photographs at Fisher and Son's, High street, should ■serve as a strong corrective. The best examples there of photography '.hroughout New Zealand reveal in -ome a very attractive grace and -lelicacy, and in others power and action. The range of subject is wide. Some of the most striking are portraits, and the highest marks were to one such study by Mr Spencer Digby, of Wellington, to whom '.he judges gave 92 marks out of 100. The competition, held annually, was judged this year under the auspices of the Duncdin Photographic Society, by Messrs G. Chance, J. J. Webster, and Russell Clark. Of the total of 100 marks 30 each are allotted to conception, composition, and technique, and 10 to production. The order of the clv.bs, determined by the aggregate mar' ; of the exhibitors from each one, is as follows:—Auckland, Camera Pictorialists of Auckland, Dunedin, "nvercargill, Wellington, Canterbury. The photographs will be exhibited in turn in each centre.