CAMERA COMPETITION

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 17, 20 October 1939, Page 13

CAMERA COMPETITION

Comments By

Judge

_ . N ‘the opposite page we announce the prize-winners in our Camera Competition, -and reproduce three of the winning photographs. . The number of entries was very large, but many had to be rejected bec ise they did not comply with the conditions laid down when the Competition ‘was announced. Some were miniatures; a considerable number were too indistinct for satisfactory. reproduction on any class-of paper; others were suitable for reproduction on art Pape only..Some had already appeared in other publications. "Those that went finally to the Judge came from all parts of the Dominion, ‘ind were the work both of professionals and of amateurs. These are his remarks: "One of the outstanding advances of the last few years has been the extra* ordinary progress on. the technical side of photography — due doubtless to the demands of the film world. This advance is obvious in the photographs submitted tor.the competition. The technical standard was very high. The imaginative qualities howevet were by no means encouraging. Many of the subjects were very hackneyed, and the inventive efforts were too obvious. However, the results are of considerable value and I am sure that quite a number of the submitted works will find their — appropriate places in future pages of * The New Zealand, Listener.’ : "The human values were on the whole deficient; remarkably few of the photoSraphs suggest that the people in New Zealand do anything but indulge in ‘day-long blessed idleness; and of course we know that that is definitely not the case."