WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23215, 8 December 1938, Page 6

WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS

SUPERIOR TO MEN LONDON DISPLAY RESULTS Women in London registered a shock to masculine pride by stealing * the Professional Photographers' Exhibition from their mule colleagues. v It was freely admitted at the exhibition that tho camera portraits and stills by women were, except in tho case of child studios, greatly superior to the men's. All tho experimental photography work and most of the colour portraits were the work of women. The most unusual exhibits were those of Miss Ursula Powys-Lybbe, who surrounded her portraits with miniatures of the sitters' hobbies and homes. Her portrait of Lady Mary Dunn was dbcorated with pictures of a pair of skis, a horse, a couple of children, a music score, a dachshund, a saloon car and the facade of Lady Mary's home. When it camo to tho photographing of babies, however, the men proved their superiority. Photographers were at a loss to explain tho reason, but tho secretary of the asnociation thought it was psychological. He said ,that men could look at a baby arid remain detached, forgetting the human aspect and thinking of the baby in terins only of a camera subject. That attitude, he thought, was irioro difficult for a woman.