EPS - 1893 Members' Exhibition

EPS

1893 Members' Exhibition

Awards

The May 1893 edition of Transactions of the Edinburgh Photographic Society published the rules for the exhibition. The rules were fairly similar to those for the 1892 Members' Exhibition.

The Medals to be awarded for the exhibition were listed in the January 1894 edition of Transactions. They were:

Class		Medals
Class I	Lantern Slides	Silver: (not awarded) Bronze: Hippolyte J Blanc Bronze: W Mitchell
Class II	Best Picture from a negative taken in the 1893 Saturday Rambles	Silver: James R Roddick Bronze: Thomas Barclay
Class III	Figure Study The Council considered the entries not to be appropriate for the class, and that they would be better described as Portraiture. [In the1894 Exhibition, this class was extended to include both Figure Studies AND Portraiture]	Silver: (not awarded) Bronze: (not awarded)
Class IV	Best Landscape	Silver: James B Johnston Bronze: Dr Drinkwater Bronze: G L McGibbon
Class V	Best Enlargement	Silver: James Patrick Bronze: R S Webster

Attendance

It was reported that attendance at the exhibition was good, particularly on the music and lantern evenings.

Exhibits

A report of the exhibition appeared in Amateur Photographer on 18 November 1892*. I have categorised this as Members' Exhibition, but it is clear that the exhibition was also open to others. The journal reported:

"Of the pictures which are exhibited, there are nearly 200 by members of the society.

- Mr FP Cembrano jun. has sent four landscape studies, printed in platinum, on rough paper, which have taken first-class awards at exhibitions in London, New York, Amsterdam and Brussels.

- Mr W Bedford, London, has sent duplicates of three pictures which were exhibited in the Pall Mall Exhibition.

- Mr George Davison sends twelve landscape pictures of the Emersonian school about the effects of which there has been much controversy in photographic circles.

- Mr Ralph Robinson, London sends three large pictures - landscapes with figures - which will be useful to the members as studies in composition.

- Mr Liddell Sawyer, Newcastle sends two large composition subjects, which illustrate the charming effects that may be produced by attention to lighting.

- Mr F Sutcliffe, Whitby, sends a series of very beautiful landscape enlargements.

- Mr Adam Diston, Leven, Fifeshire, a few exhibits of composition genre subjects.

- Of the work of the members, the most striking is the large group of the Photographic Convention by Mr Ayton, the Chairman."

*NOTE: If these comments do in fact relate to the 1893 Exhibition, this date is incorrect.

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Exhibition Rules 1891