ADELAIDE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
FOUNDED 30th APRIL 1926
Wednesday 28th November 1928 Page 18 - The Advertiser (Adelaide SA)
The Adelaide Photographic Society will hold its first exhibition of pictorial photography in the Society of Arts Gallery, Institute Buildings, North-terrace, on Thursday. The exhibition will be opened at 3pm by the Lady Mayoress (Mrs. Lavington Bonython) and there will be a private view until 5pm. The display will remain open daily from 12 to 5pm in the afternoon and from 7.30pm to 9.30pm on the evening, until the following Wednesday.
Wednesday 28th November 1928 Page 17 - News (Adelaide SA)
ADELAIDE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
EXHIBITION OF PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Society's of Arts Gallery, Institute Building, North terrace. Private View and Official Opening by the Lady Mayoress (Mrs. J. Lavington Bonython), Thursday, at 3pm, 29th November 1928.
Thursday Evening the Exhibition will be open to the Public, when John White, Esq., will speak on the Pictures exhibited. The Exhibition will remain open till Wednesday, December 5th. Daily 12 to 5pm. Evenings, 7.30pm to 9.30pm.
Wednesday 28th November 1928 Page 15 - News (Adelaide SA)
There will be an exhibition of pictorial photography by Adelaide Photographic Society from tomorrow afternoon until Wednesday of next week at the Society of Arts Gallery, Institute Building, North terrace. This exhibition will be the first of its kind to be held in Adelaide. Mrs. J. Lavington Bonython (Lady Mayoress) will perform the opening ceremony. Day sessions will begin at noon and close at 5pm. Night sessions will be from 7.30pm to 9.30pm.
Thursday 29th November 1928 Page 15 - The Register (Adelaide SA)
AMATEUR'S EXHIBITION
Art has been defined as a record of an emotion, of the artist's reaction to an impression. Certainly, if eyes to see the skill to depict, not mere detail but fleeting moods of Nature and varied aspects of life, form the equipment of an artist, then there is real art in the fine exhibition of amateur photographs hung on the walls of the first exhibition of the Adelaide Photographic Society at the Society of Arts Gallery, North Terrace, which is to be opened by the Lady Mayoress (Mrs. J. Lavington Bonython) this afternoon. The Adelaide Photographic Society was formed at a meeting, held on April 30, 1926. Since then it has worked quietly on until it was possible to hold an exhibition worthy of the standards towards which they were working. It was decided not to award a diploma - the fact of having a picture accepted and hung, being considered the equivalent of a diploma. Although the society is purely an amateur one, the the standard of the work is remarkably high, good photographically and decidedly attractive pictorially.
The exhibition gains in interest from the fact that each of the artists has a marked point of view and individual interests. There are charming bits of landscape in South Australia strongly characterized Australian types and well managed seascapes. But the scope is wider yet, Dr. G.W. Morey has delightful glimpses of Europe and Mr T.H. Soward has brought back from his visit of the old land, some really wonderful pictures of London and of the country. And in this variety of subject, lighting and treatment, is to be found the special appeal of the collection. Portrait work of a particularly worthwhile kind is found in Mr Joyner's picture, "The Artist" (Hans Heysen). The painter is standing before his easel, on which is a typical Heysen landscape, well, but not too sharply, indicated. Other fine things of Mr Joyner's include a figure of a girl which, was hung at the Royal Photographic Society's exhibition in London this year and several well-managed subjects such as "Reverie" and "Head of a Girl". There are some remarkable landscape studies from New Zealand, "Dusky Sound" and others, from the Flinders Range, strikingly characteristic and nearer home. "Daffodils" and "Cherry Blossom" illustrate yet another phase of his work. Dr. Morey's "Venice" is delightful and its well-managed reflections. Others are just as attractive, "Marie Antoinette's Cottage", "Lake Como", St Peter's Gate and the rest. There are beautiful examples of Italian scenery, strikingly handled, in the work of Esther Baylis, "In the Borghese Gardens, Rome", "Morning", "Cloisters at St. Paul's" and many others, each worthy of study. Mr T.H. Soward's contribution to the exhibition is a particularly fine one, in fact an exhibition in itself. He works on a fairly large scale and, in his pictures, has been especially happy not only in capturing atmospheric effects, but actual bits of life. "A Murky Evening, The Yarra" and "Morning" are admirable. The London picture's are a real study. They include 'Summer Morning, London and others, "Sunlit Cloisters, Wells", other bits of that old cathedral and other places in England. Never once is the interest merely topical, though truth of delineation blends with fine technique It is impossible to specify even the outstanding works of each photographer. Arthur C. Stremple is represented by a clever glimpse of actuality in "Roadmenders", in which the dust cloud has been remarkably well caught. Mr R.C Edwards has a charming thing in "Evening Calm", "Moored" is also characteristic and "The Grange Creek" is charming. Mr L.L. Sampson is represented by "Idle Ketches". Dr. J.C. Hackett by "Solitude" and Mr T.D. Williams by "Ketches"; these and other seascapes are decidedly attractive. The official opening and private view of the exhibition will take place this afternoon and in the evening when Mr John White will give an address on the photographs from a pictorial point of view.
PROMINENT CONTEMPORARY LADY PHOTOGRAPHER
ESTHER (LEGOE) BAYLIS
24th May 1898 - 1990
Esther (Legoe) Baylis was one of the first woman architecture students at the School of Mines in South Australia but did not qualify, believing there was no future career for her as an architect. She made her mark instead with photographs in which she explored the lines and shadows created by the built environment.
Esther (Legoe) Baylis grew up in a wealthy family in Adelaide where girls were not encouraged "to do anything but go to parties". From an early age she was interested in photography and in painting; as a career she wanted to be an interior decorator, considered a male profession in early 20th-century Adelaide. Instead she enrolled in Architecture at the School of Mines, though she was the only woman student.
She turned to architectural photography. In 1923 she spent the £100 she had won in Australasian Photo-Review Kodak magazine competitions on a new camera while on her first trip to England. She had the family cellar converted to a dark room and took private lessons from the secretary of the South Australian Photographic Society.
Esther (Legoe) Baylis exhibited frequently in photographic exhibitions winning medals in a 1925 "All Australian Exhibition" in her home state. She was attracted to working in the pictorial style, being particularly interested in the lines and shadows of buildings in her photographs. The Art Gallery of South Australia was possibly the first Australian public gallery to buy art photographs, including those of Esther (Legoe) Baylis, in 1926 partly due to its adviser John Kaufmann a Pictorialist photographer.
Esther (Legoe) Baylis was one of many very good contemporary woman photographers at the time in South Australia. One quarter of the record 85 entries in the pictorial section of the 1923 Adelaide Camera Club exhibition were submitted by women. In 1928 though Esther (Legoe) Baylis was the only woman exhibitor in the more conservative Adelaide Photographic Society, where most of her fourteen or fifteen exhibited prints sold for between £1.15.0 and 2 guineas each, in an exhibition of 135 entries.
She described herself as an "amateur photographer, would-be artist", writing in 1985 that the important thing is the know-how to compose a picture and one must see the picture at a glance in one’s mind for it to succeed. Esther (Legoe) Baylis’s photographs are now in the collections of the National Art Gallery in Canberra as well the South Australian Art Gallery in Adelaide.
For more information ESTHER (LEGOE) BAYLIS
PROMINENT CONTEMPORARY LADY PHOTOGRAPHER
ESTHER LENN (LEGOE) BAYLIS
24th May 1898 - 1990
Esther Legoe was the first woman to study an architectural course in South Australia although she did not practice as an architect, instead becoming a noted photographer.
Esther Lenn Legoe was the daughter of businessman and grazier Glen Legoe and his wife Jessie (nee Dean) and had a brother, Richard and a sister, Nancy. She was born at Largs Bay on 24th May 1989. As a girl Esther was a keen photographer and painter and began taking photos with a Box Brownie gift aged 12, (DAAO) converting a cellar of her home into a darkroom and studio. The Legoe home was "Trefresa", at 16 Victoria Avenue, Unley Park, which had significant alterations and additions in the Arts and Crafts style designed by Louis Laybourne Smith of Woods, Bagot, Jory and Laybourne Smith, in 1919, a watercolor of which by Arthur d’Auvergne Boxall (1895-1944) is held in the Gavin Walkley collection of the Architecture Museum, University of South Australia.
Esther had been schooled as a boarder at the Church of England Girls Grammar School at Geelong, Victoria and when she returned to South Australia to embark on an architectural course she was the first woman to do so. She recalled in a letter to Gavin Walkley that "when I was 17 years old – wanting really to be an interior decorator. Architecture was the nearest thing". Much of her story has been compiled using letters she wrote to former lecturers at the South Australian School of Mines and Industries (now University of South Australia), Louis Laybourne Smith and Gavin Walkley, and held in the Architecture Museum at the same institution.
Esther Legoe attended the South Australian School of Mines and Industries from 1917 to about 1921. She had almost completed the course, with only two more exams to undertake when she gave up, mistakenly believing women would never be admitted to the Institute of Architects. Esther Legoe began her architectural training when she turned 18 years old, beginning her articles with Woods, Bagot, Jory and Laybourne Smith after filling in time after leaving school with watercolor lessons with Gwen Barringer and modeling at the School of Mines and Industries and English and Geology lectures at the University of Adelaide.
Louis Laybourne Smith, with the aid of Walter Bagot had founded the Architectural Department at the School of Mines and Industries in 1906. Later, in the 1910s, the School of Mines and Industries and the University of Adelaide agreed to offer a combined four-year course leading to a joint award of Fellowship of the School of Mines and University Diploma in Applied Science in Architectural Engineering. This is the course Esther Legoe enrolled in. Esther recalls attending: "I went to Physics lectures at the University given by Prof. Kerr Grant, first year Maths at the University, Architectural History lectures given by Walter Bagot (quite my favorite subject), all those drawing subjects given by Mr Pavia at the School of Mines, and lots of lectures by Louis Laybourne Smith. I attended all the lectures from the office and looked in the shop windows as I walked en route along Rundle Street!!" Esther recalled, "My chief memory of Louis Laybourne Smith is one of kindness. One dark winter’s night I left the School of Mines after a lecture and running across North terrace was knocked over by a bicycle! Mr Laybourne Smith coming along, I think on his motorcycle, picked me up and guided me – still seeing stars – to the oncoming tram bound for Unley Park. I used to enjoy Mr Laybourne Smith’s lectures. He sometimes wore a bow tie".
In 1917 Esther was "the most successful student in the department" (School of Mines and Industries 1917: 32). It was reported in the Royal Australian Institute of Architects Architecture magazine on 20 November 1918 that "The Council awarded the annual book prize, value £3, for the best student in the Architectural Course, to Miss Esther Legoe". Esther recalled, in a letter to Gavin Walkley, that she "topped the classes and won a scholarship … with which I bought two lovely books, Lutyens English Houses and another one of Italian Gardens. D’Auvergne Boxall, made a very attractive plate which he stuck in the Lutyens book". The full titles are E.L. Lutyens, 1914, Houses and Gardens, published by Country Life, and E.March Phillipps, 1919, The Gardens of Italy, published by Country Life, these copies are held at the University of South Australia Library in the Gavin Walkley Special Collection.
While she studied Architecture Esther was also an articled pupil in the office of Woods Bagot Jory and Laybourne Smith, who in a letter to her father expressed the partners "entire satisfaction" that she did "better than we expected" and had an "excellent attitude towards the routine of the office". However in a draft of a letter regarding Miss Legoe, Laybourne Smith wrote of his concern that “she must be prepared to meet the various grades of people employed in the Building Trades to face any slight disabilities attendant on inspection of works such as mounting scaffolds”, there he trailed off and the draft of the letter was left unfinished. (Laybourne Smith to Glen Legoe Esq., 7th June 1917).
Esther Legoe noted on the reverse of a watercolor sketch of an office interior made in about 1917-1919 that it was "A sketch by d’Auvergne Boxall of part of Woods Bagot Jory and Laybourne Smith’s office in the Steamship Buildings. Mr Harris leaning on his drawing board – strong room on right. My board in foreground and Boxall’s is behind where he sketched this!" (D’Auvergne Boxall, c.1918). The Steamship Buildings were on Currie Street, Adelaide and are now demolished. Esther Legoe remained working in the office for four and a half years before leaving the profession having "heard rumors" that women would never be admitted to the Institute of Architects.
In 1923 Esther began to pursue "an interest in artistic photography as a serious amateur", and was a member of the Adelaide Photographic Society exhibiting in group exhibition in 1928. Her talent was such that her photographs Esther was the first female photographer represented in an Australian public collection at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Recently her photographs were included in a significant exhibition of South Australian photographers in 2007 at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Curator of the exhibition, Julie Robinson, noted in "A century in focus: South Australian Photographers 1840s - 1940s", that her works "reveal her love of architecture, gardens and travel" (2007, p.158). Later, her love of painting took over from photography and she was a member of a women’s art group called "The Gropers" (DAAO).
Esther married Denis Gordon Baylis (1901-1973) in the mid-1920s and they lived at Binnum in the southeast of South Australia and later, possibly from 1958 they lived at Kongbool, Balmoral, Victoria. They had two sons. Esther passed away in 1990 and is buried with her husband at the Municipal Cemetery at Drysdale, Victoria.
Citation details JULIE COLLINS, "Legoe, Esther Lenn", Architecture Museum, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 2013, Architects of South Australia
Thursday 29th November 1928 Page 11 - The Advertiser (Adelaide SA)
ADELAIDE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
AN EXCELLENT EXHIBITION
The standard of merit reached by the exhibits at the first public show of the Adelaide Photographic Society, which will be opened this afternoon at the Society of Arts Gallery, Institute Building, North-terrace, by the Lady Mayoress (Mrs. Constance Jean Lavington Bonython), is a high one and has probably never been surpassed at any similar exhibition in this State. The society, which was founded in April 1926, consists solely of amateurs. Its objects being to bring together those interested in photography for discussion and mutual assistance.
The officials are: President, Mr Frederick Allen Joyner; vice-president, Mr T.H. Stoward; Hon.Treasurer. Mr Arthur C. Strempel; Hon.Secretary, Mr R.C. Edwardes.
One of the features of the exhibition is that no prizes or diplomas have been awarded, but each picture on view had to be approved by a selection committee before it was accepted. This has resulted in those being shown attaining a high standard, for no picture was passed unless it possessed some distinctive merit. It speaks well for the members of the society that, notwithstanding the strictures of the selection committee, there are 135 pictures on view. The president of the society is represented by a varied collection of work, all of which shows a thorough knowledge of the technicalities of photography combined with an artistic understanding. One of his outstanding exhibits is "Reverie", which was shown this year at the Royal Photographic Society's exhibition in London and has deservedly been reproduced in the catalog of the present show. "Head of a Girl", "Sheep at Water", "Southern Coast", "Clinton Valley, New Zealand" and "The Artist", a study of Hans Heysen at work on one of his typical Australian canvases, all have an appeal of their own.
Mr T.H. Stoward is showing a number of excellent pictures, one of the most artistic being "Mystic Solitude", a study of light and shade in an English pine forest. In striking contrast, but equally meritorious, is "Hillside Gums", an Australian landscape. In "Danger Ahead" and "A Credulous Story", he has two fine figure studies. Other gems comprise "Cloister Shade in Well's Cathedral", "Sunday Morning in Kensington Gardens" and "Somerset Cottages".
Mrs. Esther Baylis has two splendid portrait studies, in which she has achieved a beautiful soft tone without sacrificing expression. She is also represented by a collection of excellent views taken in Europe, including "Fish Market, Bergen, Norway", "Castello St Angelo" and "A Comer of the Cathedral at Sienna, Italy".
Mr R.C. Edwardes has specialized mainly on seascapes, in which he has proved very successful. "Evening Calm" is a view of a ketch leaving the Outer Harbor, in which the effect of the setting sun on the water and clouds has been very happily caught. "Moored", a light and shade study of ketches at Port Adelaide, which has been reproduced in the catalog and "Man in the Hat", a charming study of a boy wearing a top-hat, are also splendid specimens.
The lure of Port Adelaide for the photographer is also shown in the work of Mr Arthur C. Strempel "Dawn on the River" and "Icabod", both having a charm of this own. Equally meritorious, though of a different character, is "Twin Gums".
Dr. G.W. Morey, who is at present in Europe, sent a number of views and studies from Italy, each of which has some distinctive attraction.
Other members of the society who are represented in the exhibition by interesting studies are Mr T. D. Williams, Dr. C.J. Hackett and Mr Lloyd L. Sampson.
Thursday 29th November 1928 Page 19 - News (Adelaide SA)
PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Work of Adelaide Society
PRIVATE VIEW TODAY
Although it is the first exhibition of pictorial photography held by the Adelaide Photographic Society, 135 pictures were seen on the walls of the Society of Arts Gallery at the private view this afternoon. This evening the exhibition will be open to the public. Mr J. White will speak on the pictures exhibited. The exhibition will remain open until next Wednesday. The society has been in existence since April 1926. There are only nine exhibittors, but the pictures are of a high artistic standard. The executive committee comprises Messrs. Frederick Allen Joyner (president), T.H. Stoward (vice-president), Arthur C. Strempel (Hon.Treasurer) and R.C. Edwardes (Hon.Secretary). Many striking photographic studies, rich in light and shade effects, are displayed. The greater part of the subject matter has been drawn from abroad, but there are several fine Australian landscape scenes. One of the best exhibits is "Reverie", by Mr Frederick Allen Joyner. It portrays a woman in reminiscent mood. She is gowned in Flemish peasant style and below her the sea is seen through leafy bushes.
DELIGHTFUL ATMOSPHERE
Esther Baylis achieves a delightful atmosphere in "Portrait". It is a beautiful photograph of a girl caught in serious mood. The light round the face and hair contrasts beautifully with the shaded black of the dress and the pale, almost ghostly, aspect of the hands. Mr R.C. Edwardes has many contributions, one of his best being "Moored", a study of boats on the Port Adelaide River. Here again a delightfully peaceful atmosphere pervades the picture and the water is suggestive of faint ripples. A quiet serenity distinguishes "Somerset Cottages" by Mr T.H. Stoward. In this photograph old world thatched cottages, the white walls of which are covered here and there with creepers, stand on a curving road over which a black cat is walking.
PICTORIAL GEMS
The exhibition is full of pictorial gems and a realistic study of Hans Heysen at work in his studio attracts attention. This artist is seen in characteristic mood. He is standing before one of his well-known gum tree pictures and is looking down at his palette. This photograph by Mr Joyner demands attention. "The Man in the Hat", an arresting study by Mr Edwardes, depicts a little boy in an opera hat. It is a charming study and the expression of the child is well worth reproduction. Dr. G.W. Morey is represented by many attractive studies of the Continent and Mr T.D. Williams has pictured ketches on the Port Adelaide River in a pleasing exhibit. Dr. C.J. Hackett and Mr Lloyd L. Sampson have each supplied a beautiful study and Mr Arthur C. Strempel has two notable exhibits. Mrs. J. Lavington Bonython (Lady Mayoress) opened the exhibition this afternoon.
FREDERICK ALLEN JOYNER
LAWYER, PHOTOGRAPHER and GARDENER
1863 - 1945
Frederick Allen Joyner was born at North Adelaide in 1863.
Studied law at the University of Adelaide and practiced as a solicitor in Adelaide for fifty years.
Married Annie Adelaide Wigg (1867-1948) in 1889.
Member and later President (1902-1904 and 1906-1909) of the South Australian Photographic Society and President of the Adelaide Photographic Society (1928).
His photography was exhibited locally, interstate and overseas, especially at the Royal Photographic Society's exhibition in London.
Bought the 'Karkoo' property at Bridgewater in 1906 and established an orchard, market garden and seed farm where new types of vegetables and flowers were developed.
Gave public lectures and wrote articles about horticulture and photography.
Friday 30th November 1928 Page 6 - The Register (Adelaide SA)
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
OFFICIAL OPENING
At the Society of Arts Gallery, North terrace, on Thursday afternoon, the Lady Mayoress (Mrs. J. Lavington Bonython) officially opened the first exhibition of pictorial photography shown by the Adelaide Photographic Society.
The president (Mr F.A. Joyner), in introducing the Mayoress, said members of the society appreciated the fact that their first exhibition was to be opened by a lady who not only admirably fulfilled the high position which she held, but displayed a keen and intelligent interest in everything appertaining to art and the improvement of the city. He made no claim that photography was art, but he asked could photography be art? He would not attempt to answer the question himself.
The Lady Mayoress, in declaring the exhibition open, said she thought there was no doubt that photography was art. The statement that the camera, was a sort inhuman George Washington was not correct. Marvelous strides had been made in photography in the last few years, although it was still a comparatively young art. In 1839 the first photograph had been taken by means of a camera and successively the daguerreotype, collodion and ferrotype pictures had been introduced and progressively there had been evolved the beautiful and varied photographic processes of to-day. She believed that was the first exhibition of the Adelaide Photographic Society, which was quite a young movement and it was pleasing to note that some of the members were artists in the truest sense. What they were doing would do much to encourage the love of beauty in Adelaide.
The Rev. Canon Murphy, in proposing a vote of thanks to the Lady Mayoress, said that photography was an art with a future. The best London papers were specializing in photography and they claimed that it was an art of modern times. Mr A.C. Strempel seconded the motion which was carried with applause.
Friday 30th November 1928 Page 21 - The Advertiser (Adelaide SA)
ADELAIDE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
OFFICIAL OPENING
The first exhibition of Pictorial photography by the Adelaide Photographic Society, was opened at the Institute, North-Terrace on Thursday afternoon by the Lady Mayoress (Mrs. Lavington Bonython). In introducing her, the president (Mr Frederick Allen Joyner) said the members of the society greatly appreciated the fact that at this, their first exhibition, the opening was to be performed by a lady who, not only admirably filled the high office which she held, but displayed a keen and intelligent interest in everything appertaining to art and the improvement of the City. When he used the word art, he did not refer to the exhibition which they saw round them. He made no claim that photography was art and did not attempt to answer the question whether photography could be art. He would leave that to the discrimination of individual observers who might see the exhibition.
The Lady Mayoress said she had often said when opening picture shows that she knew little of art, but she knew even less of the art of photography, for she did not think there was any doubt that modern photography was art. Her fate, especially during the last year, had been to be a victim rather than exponent of the art of photography and when she saw some of the newspaper photographs of herself and remembered that the camera could not lie, she lost whatever vanity she ever had.
One now knew, however, that the statement about the camera being a sort of superhuman George Washington was not quite correct. No caricature could be so grotesque as a photograph which was out of focus. She had seen amateur snapshots of herself, in which her hands were like a bunch of bananas and her nose something to which the famous nose of Savinien Bergerac could not be compared and as for her feet - well, why talk about policemen?
Perfectly marvelous strides had been made in the art of photography in the past three years. It was a comparatively young art. The first photograph taken by a camera was made as recently as1839 and it had the disadvantage that no further copies could be made. In 1851, however, Scott Archer invented tintypes and most people would remember seeing pictures of their fathers and mothers standing stiffly to have their pictures taken, stiffly perforce, because their heads were held in position by clamps and blocks.
The Adelaide Photographic Society was a young one, but there was no doubt that the members, all amateurs, had the necessary attributes. If a photographer was the kind of person to whom
A primrose by the river's brim.
A yellow primrose was to him.
And it was nothing more.
he could be no more an artist with the camera than if he were trying to reproduce beauty by any other means. She was glad to show her appreciation of all that the society was doing to encourage the love of photography in Adelaide.
A vote of thanks to the Lady Mayoress was proposed by the Rev. Canon Murphy, a past-president of the society, seconded by Mr Arthur C. Strempel and carried.
Saturday 1st December 1928 Page 6 - The Mail (Adelaide SA)
"SOMERSET COTTAGES"
A picturesque study by Mr. T.H. Stoward,
shown at the first exhibition of the
ADELAIDE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
at the Institute Building, North terrace.
Saturday 1st December 1928 Page 3 - The Mail (Adelaide SA)
Monday 3rd December 1928 Page 10 - The Advertiser (Adelaide SA)
PHOTOGRAPHS PURCHASED
The Hon. Lady Hore-Ruthven and Lady Evelyn Malcolm visited the Adelaide Photographic Society's exhibition today. Lady Hore-Ruthven purchased "His Last Match", by Frederick Allen Joyner. Works by Frederick Allen Joyner, A.C. Strumpel and T.H. Stoward were bought for the Art Gallery.
Saturday 1st December 1928 Page 14 - The Mail (Adelaide SA)
"MOORED"
A fine example of the photographic art
of Mr R.C. Edwardes, shown at the first exhibition of the
ADELAIDE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
at the Institute Building, North terrace.
Monday 3rd December 1928 Page 15 - The Register (Adelaide SA)
The Adelaide Photographic Society's exhibition of pictorial photography at the Society of Arts gallery was visited by the Hon. Lady Hore-Ruthven and Lady Evelyn Malcolm on Saturday morning. The visitors were escorted round the exhibition by the President of the society (Mr F.R. Joyner) and the Hon.Secretary (Mr R.C. Edwardes). The Hon. Lady Hore-Ruthven expressed pleasure at the works exhibited and appreciated the high standard maintained throughout the exhibition. The Hon. Lady Hore-Ruthven purchased exhibit No. 115, "His Last Match", by Frederick Allen Joyner.
The board of governors for the Art Gallery have purchased the following works for this Art Gallery: No 78, "Road to the Farm", by Frederick Allen Joyner; No. 113. "Roadmaking", by Arthur C. Strempel; No. 119, "Patient Toilers", by F.H. Stoward; No. 121, "The Artist (Hans Heysen)", br Frederick Allen Joyner.
Other works purchased are: No.60, "From the Villa D'Estate, Twoh, Italy", by Esther Baylis; No. 80, "Bunyeroo Valley, Flinders Range", by Frederick Allen Joyner; No. 34, "In Milford Sound", by Mr A. Joyner; No. 126. "The Shaded Walk", by Esther Baylis; No. 182, "Red Gums", by Esther Baylis.
Monday 3rd December 1928
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ADELAIDE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
EXHIBITION OF PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
SOCIETY OF ARTS GALLERY INSTITUTE BUILDING, NORTH-TERRACE
29th NOVEMBER to 5th DECEMBER
Daily, 12-5pm: Evenings, 7.30-9.30pm.
R.C. EDWARDES
HON.SECRETARY
Tuesday 4th December 1928 Page 10 - The Advertiser (Adelaide SA)
AT THE SOCIETY OF ARTS GALLERY
Lady Hore-Ruthven, accompanied by Lady Evelyn Malcolm, visited the Adelaide Photographic Society's exhibition of pictorial photography on Saturday morning. The president of the society (Mr Frederick Allen Joyner) and the Hon.Secretary (Mr R.C. Edwardes) were in attendance. After a close and detailed examination of the works on the walls Lady Hore-Ruthven said, "I am surprised and delighted with the exhibition. I had no idea that I was to see such a splendid display. I have enjoyed it immensely". Lady Evelyn Malcolm, herself a keen amateur Photographer, said, "I am as greatly impressed with the technical excellence of the prints as I am with their undoubted artistic merit. I think It a wonderful exhibition". Lady Hore-Ruthven purchased "His Last Match".
Wednesday 5th December 1928
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The Adelaide Photographic Society's exhibition of pictorial photography will remain open till Saturday. The original closing date was announced as 5th December, but owing to public appreciation and many requests that the period of the exhibition should be extended, it has now been decided that the exhibition shall remain open for a further three days.
Wednesday 5th December 1928 Page 7 - The Advertiser (Adelaide SA)
ADELAIDE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
BY REQUEST
THE EXHIBITION OF PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
AT THE SOCIETY OF ARTS GALLERY INSTITUTE BUILDING, NORTH-TERRACE
WILL REMAIN OPEN TILL SATURDAY 8th DECEMBER
Daily, 12-5pm: Evenings, 7.30-9.30pm.
ADMISSION FREE
Wednesday 5th December 1928 Page 22 - The Advertiser (Adelaide SA)
PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD
At a meeting on the 21st December the fine arts committee reported having inspected an exhibition of photographs by members of the Adelaide Photographic Society and resolved that, subject to the conditions of purchase of photographs for the photographic section the following works be purchased: "The Road to the Farm", by F.A. Joyner; "The Roadmakers", by Arthur C. Strempel; "Patient Toilers", by T.H Stoward; and "The Artist (Hans Heysen)", by F.A. Joyner.
Tuesday 8th April 1930 Page 9 - News (Adelaide SA)
EXHIBITION PRIZES
PHOTOGRAPHS JUDGED
LATEST AWARDS
Messrs. G.I. Meller, W.J. McNeill and A.H. Vaughan completed the judging of the photographic group of the All-Australian Exhibition entries yesterday. The list of awards was made available this morning.
Two entries were finished in oils and could not be judged with those tinted in watercolors. Owing to their exceptional merit the judges classified them separately and recommended awards as follows: Miss J.G. McLaughlin, gold medal; Mrs. N. Balk, silver medal.
Group prizes for the best exhibit in the group in each division were as follow: Division 1, Messrs. A.W.C. Ford (seascape) and Charles W. Tomlinson (exterior architecture), equal; division 2, Miss S. Berry (exterior architecture).
A large crowd listened to an orchestra concert in the main hall of the Exhibition this afternoon. The music was provided by the Red Pepper Orchestra, with Mr. A. Dorling as conductor. Tonight the Melody Makers, under Mr. H.G. Broadbent, will give a concert.
PHOTOGRAPHY - SECTION C:
Class 618
LANDSCAPE - Division 1: Silver medal and Kodak prize. Miss K.M. MacAskill; bronze medal, J. MacAskill, T. Showard, P. H. Williams; certificate of merit. A.W. Ford, K.P. Phillips. W. Robson, M.E. Sherrah, T.H. Showard, P.H. Williams, C. Tomlinson, J. MacAskill. Miss I. Cox, A. Wilkinson, G.S. Dick. Division 2: Certificate of merit, Miss S. Berry.
Class 619
PORTRAITS OF FIGURE STUDY - Division 1: Bronze medal and Kodak champion prize, T.H. Showard; bronze medal and Kodak special second prize, K.P. Phillips; certificate of merit, K.P. Phillips, A.W. Ford; Kodak special third prize, R.S. Sladdin; certificate of merit, J. Eccles.
Class 620
GENERAL - Division 1: Bronze medal, A. Wilkinson, M.E. Sherrah, G.L.C. Page; certificate of merit, C. Tomlinson, T.H. Showard, A.W. Ford.
Class 621
ENLARGEMENTS FROM FILM NEGATIVES - Division 1: Silver medal and Kodak first prize, A.W. Ford; bronze medal and Kodak second prize, W. Robson; bronze medal and Kodak third prize, C. Tomlinson; certificate of merit, M.E. Sharrah, Miss A.M. Soar, T.H. Showard.
Class 622
ENLARGEMENTS WITH CONTACT PRINTS - Division 1: Silver medal and Kodak prize, A. Wilkinson; bronze medal, A.W. Ford; certificate of merit, M.E. Sherrah, C. Elsegood, C. Tomlinson, J. MacAskill, A. Wilkinson. Division 2 - Certificate of merit, F.D. Hay.
Class 623
ENLARGEMENTS FINISHED OR WORKED BY OIL OR WATERCOLORS - division 1: silver medal, Mrs. M. Balk, Mrs. A.M. Soar; certificate of merit, Miss F. Kentish.
Class 624
LANTERN SLIDE - division 1: bronze medal, Radcliffe, M.E. Sherrah; certificate of merit, M.E. Sherrah. A.W. Ford, Miss B. Neate, Miss A.M. Soar, C. Tomlinson, P.H. Williams.
Class 625
HAND CAMERA WORK - division 1: silver medal, A.W. Ford: certificate of merit, T.H. Showard, C. Tomlinson.
Class 626
SEASCAPE - division 1: gold medal and group prize, A.W. Ford; silver medal, M.E. Sherrah; bronze medal, R.C. Edwards; certificate of merit, A.E. Bainbridge. M.E. Sherrah, R.C. Edwards, C.P. Mountford, C. Tomlinson.
Class 627
CLOUDS - division 1: certificate of merit, A.W. Ford, C. Tomlinson. H.K. Williams.
Class 628
FLOWER, FRUIT, AND STILL LIFE STUDIES - Division 1: Silver medal, C.P. Mountford; bronze medal, M.E. Sherrah, J. MacAskill; certificate of merit, A. Bainbridge, W. Robson, P.H. Williams, C. Tomlinson, Miss I. Cox.
Class 629
ARCHITECTURE LNTERIOR - Division 1: Bronze medal, M.E. Sherrah; certificate of merit, P.J. Williams.
Class 630
ARCHITECTURE EXTERIOR - Division 1: Gold medal and Kodak special prize, C. Tomlinson; bronze medal, M.E. Sherrah, J. MacAskill; certificate of merit, S.S. Dick, A.W. Ford, G.L.C. Page, K.P. Phillips, M.E. Sherrah, P.H. Williams, T.H. Showard. Division 2: Certificate of merit, Miss S. Berry.
Class 637
STEREOSCOPIC, Paper Prints - Division 1: Certificate of merit, B.J. Boardman.
Class 638
RETOUCHING HEAD OF ELDERLY MAN OR WOMAN - Division 1: Silver medal, M. Oliver; bronze medal, Mrs. M. Balk; certificate of merit, Miss E.F. Dobson. Division 3: Certificate of merit, Miss G.H. Giles.
Class 639
TINTED PHOTOGRAPH - Division 1: Bronze medal and Kodak prize. Miss A.M.L. Soar; certificate of merit, Miss L.C.M. Secombe, R.S. Sladdin, Miss M. Oldfield.
Class 640
INTERCLUB COMPETITION: Set of Six Pictures: Division 1: Gold medal, Adelaide Photographic Society; bronze medal, Adelaide Camera Club (2).
Class 641
NOT ELSEWHERE INCLUDED - Division 1: Silver medal, L.G. Chandler; bronze medal, H.S. Golding, S.F. Tee; certificate of merit, J. McAskill, H.K. Williams, K.P. Phillips, M.E. Sherrah, T.H. Showard.
Thursday 24th July 1930 Page 13 - The Advertiser (Adelaide SA)
Saturday 2nd August 1930 Page 11 - The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic.)
The president (Mr. F.A. Joyner) and committee of the Adelaide Photographic Society have issued invitations to the private view and official opening by the Lady Mayoress (Mrs. Lavington Bonython) of the second exhibition of pictorial photography at the Society of Arts Gallery, Institute Building, on Monday 28th July, at 3pm.
Friday 25th July 1930 Page 28 - The Register News-Pictorial (Adelaide SA)
The president (Mr F.A. Joyner) and committee of the Adelaide Photographic Society have issued invitations to the opening of their second exhibition of pictorial photography at the Society of Arts Gallery on Monday 28th July. The Lady Mayoress (Mrs. J.L. Bonython) will perform the opening ceremony.
Friday 25th July 1930 Page 14 - News (Adelaide SA)
EXHIBITION OF PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
by the
ADELAIDE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
To be Opened on Monday 28th July, at 3pm.
BY THE LADY MAYORESS OF ADELAIDE
SOCIETY OF ARTS GALLERY, and INSTITUTE BUILDINGS, NORTH-TERRACE.
OPEN DAILY until SATURDAY 2nd AUGUST, 12pm to 5pm, 7.30pm to 9.30pm
Saturday 26th July 1930 Page 15 - The Mail (Adelaide SA)
Mrs. J. Lavington Bonython (Lady Mayoress) will open the second exhibition of pictorial photography at the Society of Arts Gallery on Monday at 3pm. Mr. F.A. Joyner (president of the Adelaide Photographic Society) has issued invitations to the opening.
Monday 28th July 1930 Page 6 - News (Adelaide SA)
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS
SOCIETY OPENS EXHIBITION
HlGH STANDARD OF WORK
A fine exhibition of the work of amateur photographers, who are members of Adelaide Photographic Society, was opened in the Society of Arts Gallery this afternoon by Mrs. J. Lavington Bonython (Lady Mayoress).
Work is of a high standard and subjects treated cover a wide scope. Light and shade have been expressed excellently and care has been taken in treatment and composition.
Among those exhibiting are two women, Misses C.M. Browne and E. Joyce Waterhouse. A number of winter scenes is included in the work of Miss Waterhouse. One entitled "Winter" attracted much interest. All show fine handling.
Two amusing child studies are exhibited by Mr Frederick Allen Joyner (President of the Adelaide Photographic Society). The same exhibitor has four pictures of scenes at a kiln. "Dawn" is worthy of mention, but loses some of its charm as the figure treated appears in five other photographs.
Mr T.H. Stoward (vice-president) has several fine studies. Those dealing with child life are excellent. "Divided Attention" and "The Elementary Stage" are choice exhibits.
Messrs. R.D. Williams, R.C. Edwardes (Hon.Secretary), L. Gilbert, Lloyd L. Sampson, A.G. Strempel (Hon.Treasurer) and A. Norton complete the catalog of those whose work is on show. The aim of the society that the work shown should be of high standard has been maintained this year. It is four years since the society came into existence and two years since the last exhibition was held.
Monday 28th July 1930 Page 10 - The Advertiser (Adelaide SA)
Page 10 - The Register News-Pictorial (Adelaide SA)
Thursday 31st July 1930 Page 14 - Observer (Adelaide SA)
CAMERA ART
PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY'S EXHIBITION
There is strikingly good work at the exhibition of the Adelaide Photographic Society, which is to be opened by the Lady Mayoress at the Society of Arts Gallery at 3pm today.
This society of amateur photographers is only four years old and this is its second exhibition, but the variety of subjects and their treatment illustrate what can be done in pictorial photography with imagination to seize effects and command of method to bring them out.
The work of the President, Mr Frederick Allen Joyner, is as virile as ever. He has attained an unusual effect in the Interior of Pipe Works, his Roadmakers is strong and picturesque, while The Artist, Flinders Range, is a notable portrait of Hans Heysen at work and Mr Joyner's vivid glimpses of that strange country include Foothills of Arkaba, Evening Bivouac - Arkaba, Traveling Sheep and the Vanished Pool. By way of contract he has some charming child studies and a flower piece.
Other members show such excellent control of this medium of pictorial art that to mention any but the complete list of exhibitors would be unfair. The exhibition will remain open daily and in the evening until Saturday 2nd August.
Tuesday 29th July 1930 Page 12 - The Register News-Pictorial (Adelaide SA)
OFFICIAL OPENING
of the
ADELAIDE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
second exhibition was performed by the Lady Mayoress (Mrs. Bonython)
yesterday. On her right is Mr F.A. Joyner. The show, which includes many excellent
studies, will remain open at the Society of Arts Gallery until 2nd August.
Wednesday 30th July 1930
Page 22 - The Register News-Pictorial (Adelaide SA)
Page 2 - The Advertiser (Adelaide SA)
EXHIBITION OF PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
by the
ADELAIDE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
SOCIETY OF ARTS GALLERY, and INSTITUTE BUILDINGS, NORTH-TERRACE.
OPEN DAILY until SATURDAY 2nd AUGUST, 12pm to 5pm, 7.30pm to 9.30pm.
Wednesday 30th July 1930 Page 12 - The Register News-Pictorial (Adelaide SA)
A photographic study by T.H. Stoward entitled
"A PROUD ACHIEVEMENT"
shown in the
ADELAIDE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
exhibition at the Society of Arts Gallery, Adelaide, this week.
"What are your early memories like?
They take the form of something seen, don't they?
Mine do. A glimpse of something, generally quite unimportant, has somehow got itself photographed on your young mind in a way that will last for life. You will notice, if you think of it, that the forms are clear and the color rather vivid.
I do not know if character has anything to do with the choice of subject in these mind pictures, it has in the coloring of later memories. Some people collect gloomy impressions, some bright ones.
It was a collection of actual photographs that set me thinking about this, Pictorial photographs at the Adelaide Photographic Society's Exhibition that closes on Saturday.
It is strange how things have worked out, isn't it? At first photography was scorned by artist as a mere hard literal record. All the same, it has had its effect on the drawing of illustrators. Look back at old magazines if you want to prove this. Then artists took to catching fleeting aspects of nature and stressing feeling and so forth. Photography could only record, could not eliminate and elimination was art.
For a while curios things were done to photographs and striking effects gained. But that wasn't perhaps quite playing the game. Now the camera has come along and catches aspects of nature and life in a wonderful way. Painters are taking to quaint efforts at originality to get away from this. You must not do "representational" stuff now I believe.
Well those are their troubles.
Coming back to the camera it is worth while to go over that exhibition and think just how much temperament and insight as well as command of method has gone to make these real pictures.
Mr Edwards, the Hon.Secretary of the society, loves boats. Well you can find the calm of the water, almost hear the little lipping touch of it on the hull of a boat, there are glimpses of river life and also some inland bits that show understanding of trees.
Mr T.H. Stoward, well look at that group of men working on the road, "Action" could the idea be better expressed? He likes all outdoors, it would seem. Spume with its foamy sea, rolling mists, scrubland. He understands children. See the girl with the soap bubble, capitally posed. Also the old lady with the child.
Mr Joyner'e child studies are delightful, too. Then he deals with pipe works, achieves quite an astonishingly interesting pattern in light and shadow with endless rows of pipes. The Door of the Kiln has delightful texture in that old worn brick floor and rough doorway. Somehow it tells a story of work and passing time.
Then these memories that unlike most memories can be shared with others and this is where camera magic comes in so well whirl us away to the Flinders Range. Yes, the country that Hans Heysen has put into glowing color. And by the way Heysen himself is there, at work.
Flinders Range and the strange hills and uncanny gullies. Eerie, strange, forbidding, some of them. There are sheep struggling to water. There is the dried mud of a vanished pool.
Again you are on the broad waters of the Murray.
Magic truly!
And there is other work, bits interesting not only from their beauty but also because they help one to see what the artists (I use that word intentionally) have found that seemed worth recording. Mr Williams notes a Quiet Pool, Miss Waterhouse gives you soft shadows on New Snow, Mr Norton shows you a graceful girl in eastern draperies.
Tall gums, Sand Dunes, glimpses of the Highlands, smoke billowing up from burning branches.
So it goes on.
Memories trapped by light, held by chemical magic!
Do you know, I think it is good to think back now and then and remember what goes to the making of things.
Don't you think so?
Friday 28th October 1932 Page 17 - The Brisbane Courier (Queensland)
The members of the Queensland Camera Club are to be congratulated for their efforts collectively to bring the club's name and samples of members work before the public of Australia and the Empire.
The club recently sent an exhibit to the InterState Exhibition of Pictorial Photography, held in Sydney, under the auspices of the Photographic Society of New South Wales. Collective groups were exhibited also by the Photographic Society of New South Wales, Sydney Camera Club, Adelaide Photographic Society, Adelaide Camera Club, Melbourne Camera Club, Melbourne Pictorial Workers and the Southern Tasmanian Photographic Society.
The following is an extract from a critical review of the exhibition by Harold Cazneaux, the well-known Sydney photographer: S.W. Eutrope helps the show and incidentally the collection sent in by the Queensland Camera Club. Both his "Light after rain" and "Afternoon in Autumn" are quality landscapes in bromoil. J.H. Foster shows an excellent outlook in his work. There is good handling in "Construction"and "The Arch", wherein he finds scope for a splendid composition and study in line and masses. The work of this Queenslander is full of merit and promise. Another good worker is J.A. Murray. "The City" is quite a modern arrangement of line and tone, his viewpoint is clever. I like the locomotive in the foreground, with the glimpse of the sunlit city in the background, the execution is also masterly. A selection of the work of members of the Queensland Camera Club is being sent to London this week for entry in the "Amateur Photographer's" Colonial Competition for 1933, which is an annual event and draws entries from the four corners of the Empire.
MISS DORIS BARNES
1897 - 1994
Saturday 9th November 1935 The Australian Women's Weekly
HER PHOTOGRAPHY HAS WON RENOWN OVERSEAS
Miss Doris Barnes, of the Adelaide Camera Club, has more than Australian awards to her credit, for her artistic photographs have gained her a bronze plaque and several certificates from the Royal Photographic Society in London during the last few years. Examples of her work have been hung in the Victorian Salon and three are in the Adelaide Art Gallery.
One of the first women members of the Camera Club, she also belonged to the now non existent Adelaide Photographic Society, to which Kauffman added such lustre and she was the club's librarian for many years. Although she prefers portraiture. Miss Barnes has taken some beautiful land and sea studies on her holiday tours through Australia and Tasmania.
WHEN DAYLIGHT COMES
c. 1932
Gift of MISS DORIS BARNES in 1984 to the
NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA