ARTISTIC TWINS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 132, 7 June 1939, Page 16

ARTISTIC TWINS

Pamela AND PATRICIA BOCfcTH

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION

(By Air Mail, from "The Post's" liondon Representative.) t LONDON, Maj r 18.

Mr. Victor Booth (former: ty of Oamaru), one of the well-knowia professors at the Royal Academ;f of Music, and Mrs. Booth (who har^t many relatives in New Zealand), ha ye two very talented twin daughters wl 10 have studied art and who have ta'feen up seriously the photographic side 'of their profession. Pamela Booth, /k.R.P.S., and Patricia Booth have staged an exhibition at a Baker Street studi- I>, which Lady Kennet opened.

Pamela, a former student at the Polytechnic, acquired further j experience in a West End-studio; r«End then she went to Vienna to do me are study under Rudolph Koppitz. Where she was 20 i she held her first exhibit: km. Not long ago-she was commissioned by the German Government to tra-vjel in the Austrian.Tyrol to take photographs for publicity purposes. Varied iai ad beautiful pictures are the result. Tjbe Pamela Booth studio has been in -working order for a considerable time.,

Patricia originally went ire; for painting and was studying for ,^ome years at the Slade School of Art, In due course she joined her sister,'as a junior partner, and the twins aijri probably the youngest pair of professional photographers in London. / They are two very attractive girls, stad they are extremely alike. Patricia often acts as model for Pamela, as is (Evident from a visit to their exhibition. Pamela does not like being photograph ied.

Their work is varied arid most artistic. Studies of children are entrancing, one merry little imp beii?i;jj the daughter of Leo Walmsley, the :;iuthor. There are excellent photograpjmic portraits of well-known people,, including Professor Frederick Moore (Aiyjho is studying a score), Daphne dv j I Maurier, Sir Arnold Bax, Mr. Norn-fan Wilkinson, R. 1., Mr. Herbert Farj^eon, Professor Thomas Kriott—to narri c just a few. Pamela and Patricia 1 nve their work, and they do not want it to get so big that they will be unatjle to attend to every detail themselves. "We don't care a hoot for fuzzy \ smudgy 'art' photographs," they sayi: "It is quite possible to have a lovjbly picture and to be able to see whatsit is all about." So enthusiastic have* been the Press notices of the exhibition that one just wonders how long the two .girls will be able to do everything without extra help; for would-be sitfc jrs want appointments, and at the end of this month Patricia is' going ouV to Ashanti to spend a short holiday with Mr. and Mrs. George Thomson. Mr. Thomson was formerly of the.-? Dunedin School of Mines.