Art or Craft?
‘PHERE was refreshing naiveté of both manner and matter in the first of the Sunday afternoon talks by Grieg and Joyce Royle on The Art of Photography. Naturally, in spite of frequent attempts by one party or the other to keep it down to floor level ("The Beginner and His Camera" was the subtitle) the participants could not resist the lure of the old controversy as to
whether photography was Art or Craft, with Mrs. Royle sternly realist and Mr. Royle boyishly and determinedly on the side of Art. But the discussion, even when airborne, was never highfalutin, and the three fundamentals of lighting, subject matter, and composition’ were dealt with so clearly that even the most
determined philistine must have understood their importance. And accustomed as I am to being talked up to by speakers on the visual arts, and résigned as I now am to pursuing elusive ideas through magnificent but dimly apprehended forests of abstrusities, it was a shock (though a pleasant one) to hear Mr. Royle apologising at the end of his talk for having "soared up into the clouds."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 508, 18 March 1949, Page 10
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187Art or Craft? New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 508, 18 March 1949, Page 10
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