CAMERA CONTEST

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24132, 26 November 1941, Page 10

CAMERA CONTEST

THE BLEDISLOE CUP

EXHIBITION OF PRINTS Prints entered by photographic societies throughout the Dominion ior the 1911 Bledisloe Cup competition, including the winning exhibit of the Auckland Camera Club, have been hung in the Art Gallery and will be on view until further notice. The competition was judged this year in Dunedin by Messrs. G. Chance, J. J\ Webster and Gordon Tovey, who awarded the Auckland entry 975 points out of a possible 1200. Other societies were placed in the following order:— Wellington, 961; Dunedin, 938; Waikato, 928; Christchurch, 917; Southland,.9o3; Hawke's Bay, 806. The cup lias now been won by Auckland seven times in ten competitions. The champion print this year is "The Curio," by E. Perry, of the Wellington Camera Club'. It is a "close-up" of a boarded man in a velvet cap peering through spectacles at a small Buddha which he holds in his fingers. The Auckland exhibit is remarkable for the very fine photographic quality of several still-life studies. The surface textures of such objects as silk fabric, onions, and old pewter are reproduced with extraordinary fidelity. A good po% trait of a young woman by C. Firth, a female torso by L. M. Beck, studies of net-menders and two flower studies are included in a collection from which landscape alone is absent. Other contributors are P. S. Herbert, J. Epps, M J. Davis' C. Petersen and I. Pascoe,