ART PHOTOGRAPHS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22201, 11 December 1946, Page 4

ART PHOTOGRAPHS

SELECTED EXAMPLES GISBORNE EXHIBITION Open.ii g on Friday for a season of two weeks, an exhibition of New Zealand photographic art should prove highly interesting not only to amateurs of the camera lens but also to students of good production in any line. The exhibition will comprise 130 prints and will be staged at Mr. Keith Wade’s studio. Gisborne will be the third North Isalnd centre in which the catalogue has been displayed. The idea of a travelling exhibition was sponsored by a conference of professional photographers held recently in Auckland, where each of the attending members was allowed to enter three prints. From these the present exhibition was chosen. The catalogue comprises a wide range of subjects, including studio portraits embodying some modernistic touches in arrangement, theatrical studies of a dramatic type, landscapes in black ana white and also in colour, several commercial items, and some outstanding examples of industrial photography. Considerable interest attaches to the landscapes in colour, as these were taken by a lad in his teens and coloured by a sister even younger, the work being worthy of much more experienced hands. Included among the contributors to the exhibition are Spencer Digby, Wellington, Lesnie, of Auckland, Jaunc-y of Wellington, and Webster, of D' nedin, four names which represent the best evolutionary lines in New Zealand photography.