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Exhibitors and Medal Winners

 

 

 PSS Exhibitors

Many of Britain's eminent amateur and professional photographers submitted their work to the PSS Exhibitions.  Exhibitors included:

-  David Octavius Hill (Edinburgh)

-  Gustave Le Gray  (Paris)

-  James Mudd  (Manchester)

-  Henry Peach Robinson  (Leamington)

-  William Henry Fox Talbot  (Lacock Abbey)

-  Thomas Annan  (Glasgow)

-  Francis Bedford  (London)

-  Antoine François Claudet (London)

-  Roger Fenton  (London)

-  Oscar Gustave Rejlander  (Wolverhampton)

  

PSS Silver Medal Winner

Rev T M Raven  -  1859

Medals were awarded by the Photographic Society of Scotland, for the first time, on the occasion of their  3rd Exhibition.

Rev T Melville Raven was awarded a silver medal for the best entry by a member of the society, for his photograph titled 'Pierrefitte'.  This exhibition was held in Edinburgh in December 1858, but the medal is dated 1859.

Thank you to Dave who now owns the medal for allowing me to reproduce it..  Here are some photos of the medal, provided by Dave.

Medal awarded to Rev T Melville Raven  -  1859

    PSS Medal awarded to John MacNair, 1860 ©

   PSS Medal awarded to John MacNair, 1860 ©

   PSS Medal awarded to John MacNair, 1860 ©

Edge of PSS Medal

 

PSS Bronze Medal Winner

John MacNair  -  1860

The PSS awarded Medals in its Exhibitions, usually for photographs but on some occasions for photographic equipment..  Here are photos of two PSS Bronze Medals:

Medal awarded to John MacNair  -  1860

    PSS Medal awarded to John MacNair, 1860 ©

   PSS Medal awarded to John MacNair, 1860 ©

   PSS Medal awarded to John MacNair, 1860 ©

   PSS Medal awarded to John MacNair, 1860 ©

   PSS Medal awarded to John MacNair, 1860 ©

   PSS Medal awarded to John MacNair, 1860 ©

   PSS Medal awarded to John MacNair, 1860 ©

Edge of PSS Medal

 

Medal Winners

1st Exhibition   -  Dec 1856

No medals were awarded at this exhibition

2nd Exhibition   -  Dec 1857

No medals were awarded at this exhibition

3rd Exhibition  - Dec 1858

Rev TM Raven

Silver Medal for PSS Members:  Pierrefitte   [calotype]

Lyndon Smith

Silver Medal for photographers generally:  The Rising Mist    [calotype]

4th Exhibition  - Dec 1859

Henry Peach Robinson

Silver Medal for Best Portrait of a Group:  Here They Come 

James Mudd

Silver Medal for Best Photograph of any other subject:  

Thomas Rodger

£10 Machonochie Welwood Prize for the best photograph, other than a single portrait, taken by a Professional Member of the Society: 

Henry Peach Robinson

Bronze Medal for papers of merit read at their meetings during the season 

5th Exhibition  - Feb 1861

M Claudet

Silver Medal for Best Portrait:  Portrait of a Bride

Maxwell Lyte

Silver Medal for Best Photograph on Any Other Subject:  Pierrefith

Henry Peach Robinson

Bronze Medal for papers of merit read at their meetings during the season 

6th Exhibition  - Dec 1861

David Octavius Hill

Silver Medal for Best Picture of a Group:  Dr John Brown & John Taylor Brown

Henry Peach Robinson

Silver Medal for Best Frame containing Cartes de Visite:  (Cartes-de-visite)

James Mudd

Silver Medal for Best Photograph of Any Other Thing: The Tay above Dunkeld

7th Exhibition  - Mar 1863

Henry Peach Robinson

Silver Medal for the Best Portrait or Group:  Bringing Home the May

F Maxwell Lyte

Silver Medal for the Best Landscape:  Lac d’Oo

Vernon Heath

Another Silver Medal for the Best Landscape:  Near Burnham

John Pouncy

Silver Medal for the Best Prints in Carbon or Printing Ink:  (Prints in Carbon)

P Meagher

Silver Medal for Improvements in Apparatus connected with Photography

8th Exhibition  - Feb 1864

John Moffat

Silver Medal for the Best Portrait:  Mr George Harvey

Henry Peach Robinson

Silver Medal for the Best Group [printed form a single negative] 

Somebody’s Coming

Thomas Rodger

Bronze Medal [runner up] for the Best Group [printed form a single negative]

Colonel & Mrs Maitland Dougal

Henry Peach Robinson

Silver Medal for the Best Landscape:  Deer Park, Stoneleigh

F Bedford

Bronze Medal [runner up] for the Best Landscape: View of Warwick Castle

9th Exhibition  - Dec 1864

Henry Peach Robinson

Silver Medal for the Best Group:  Brenda

J Ramsay L’Amy

Silver Medal for the Best Group:  Nether Byers

James Mudd

Silver Medal for The Best View taken by a Dry Process:  View of Dunham Park

John Smith

Silver Medal for The Best View taken by an Amateur:  On the Leader Near Melrose

Thomas Annan

Silver Medal for The Best View in Scotland:  Dumbarton Castle

Samuel Highley

Silver Medal for Microscopic Objects enlarged for the Magic Lantern

The Pantascopic Company of London

Silver Medal for Views taken with the Pantascopic Camera

10th Exhibition  - Mar 1866

Mr Dallas

Silver Medal for the Best Portrait:  Revd. G..ullen

George Hardy

Silver Medal for the Best View by a Dry Process:  View of Patterdale

John Smith

Silver Medal for the Best View taken by an Amateur by any process:
On the Liddle, Liddiesdale

Mr Swan

Silver Medal for Best Pictures by Carbon Process: 

for his portraits, views and Horse Fair

Oscar Gustav Rejlander

Silver Medal:  for his series of portraits, groups and studies

Mr Clark

Silver Medal:  for his Views of Scotland

 

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