PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13285, 18 September 1906, Page 6

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION.

A siiatx. but most interesting exhibition of photographs from the Royal Photographic, Society, London, was opened at the Auckland Society of Arts Gallery, Coburg-street, yesterday. The exhibition is held under the auspices of the Auckland Camera Club, which is affiliated with the Royal Photographic Society. • There are upwards of 50 exhibits, and most of them are glazed with celluloid. The frames are all uniform in colour and size. Some of the pictures are surrounded with deep mounts, others are framed close up to the glass. There is only one P.O.P. study, the rest being carbons, bromides, and other processes. The subjects cover a wide range from genre to landscape, from portraiture to marine, from still life to architecture. Technically the work is excellent, pictoriaJly considered certain of the exhibits will appeal most forcibly to some persons, while others will pass them without particular attention, the broad' school cannot be said to be strongly represented, neither can it be said that those to whom detail is everything show in abundance; but a happy mean is observed, and the collection, as a whole, may be taken as being thoroughly representative. Among the exhibitors are such well-known artists as J. C. S. Mummery F. H. Evans, J. A. Hodge, W. R. Bland, F. A - 15oult C. F. Inston, W. T. reattach, E Marriage, P. Lewis, Charles Job, and J. Page Croft. The exhibition will remain open for a week. Tomorrow and on Friday. a very line collection of lantern slides will be exhibited these have been sent out by the London society, and are described by experts as being technically perfect. The gentlemen responsible for the hanging 'and general arrangements in Auckland . are, Messrs. , V „ alrom ' M. Trenwith, A. Graham and J. Potter. The exhibition should attract a large number of amateur and professional photographers.