PHOTOGRAPHIC ART

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20464, 2 April 1938, Page 3

PHOTOGRAPHIC ART

EXHIBITION FOR HAMILTON FINE AUSTRALIAN COLLECTION POSSIBILITIES % OF THE CAMERA The extent to which the camera has found its way into the field of art during the last few years has been clearly exemplified in recent photographic exhibitions, and to-day the camera is regarded as one of the truest and most reliable expressions of artistic temperament. In many of the older countries photographic exhibitions have been popular for many years and a particularly high standard of work has been reached. In recent times the hobby of photography has spread to the Southern Hemisphere and here also the class of work produced has shown an astonishing rate of progress and versatility in the use of the camera. With a view to educating the public of Hamilton to the possibilities of camera art the Waikato Camera Club has secured an exhibition of work by leading Australian photographers and will throw it open to the public free of charge from Monday. The exhibition, which has been sponsored by Kodak (Australia) Proprietary, Limited, will be held in St. Peter’s Hall and will be opened by the Mayor, Mr J. R. Fow. Included in the collection of about 80 pictures is work from such masters of the art as Dr. Julian Smith, Monte Luke, Harold Cazneaux, Athol Shmitjh, H. Mallard, Jack Cato and 11. T. Farrar. In Dr. “Smith’s splendid array of types are a Shylock, a youthful David, a sixteenth century bravo, a monk, a bearded hidalgo in a ruff and a sinisterlooking gentleman of the Goya period. There are also a number of modern portraits, including one of a brother photographer, Harold Cazneaux, while Mr Cazneaux has returned the compliment. landscape studies are also well represented and here again the Australian pictorialists have shown that they can hold their own with photographers in other parts of the world. Some of the photographers show an uncanny skill in giving their pictures the effect of etchings, aquatints and j engravings. The beautiful scenery j and flora of the Commonwealth are | particularly well treated in the pictures in the exhibition, while other fine photographs include architectural, shipping, and still life studies and table-top subjects. J I | | l ; 1 | ;