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EPS  Open Exhibition

1953

 

Catalogue cover  -  EPS Open Exhibition, 1953
©  Reproduced by courtesy of Edinburgh Photographic Society

YMCA

The exhibition was held in the YMCA Exhibition Hall at 4 Queen Street, Edinburgh.  It was on display during the Edinburgh Festival, 1opening in August 1953.

 

Alexander Dunbar's Opening Address

In his opening address, published in the 1953 Exhibition Catalogue, Alexander Dunbar , EPS President, said:

"The practising photographer is photographically tough and often cynical, wary of accepting the new, scornful of the old.

The lay-viewer is, to put it mildly, somewhat capricious; while the person about to be inspired is a very Proteus - one moment a callow youth still fumbling with a box camera the next a seasoned but jaded worker, convinced that he has run the gamut of photographic experience and that the game is not worth the candle."

 

Advertisements

It is interesting to see how many companies and products have changed since 1953.  These are the companies that placed adverts in the Catalogue for the EPS Open Exhibition, 1953:

Agiflex:  Telephoto lenses.

Alexanders:  South Clerk Street, artists' colourmen and photographers.

W R Annan Ltd:  colour printers and carton manufacturers.

A Barrie:  Frederick St. watchmakers and jewellers:  agents for Omega.

Cleghorn:  Princes Street:  golf jackets.

Commercial Bank of Scotland:  14 George Street.

Drummond & Son:  Haymarket, photographic dealers

James Dunbar:  fine table waters

Ferrania:  Roll films: 1 5/8 x 2 1/2 ins 2/3d.  2 1/2 x 4 1/4 ins. 3/4d.

Gevart:  Roll film:  Gevachrome, Gevapan 33, 30, 27 microgran.

Gnome:  Sixty Six de luxe enlarger:  £13 17/8d

Grants Bookshop:  George Street: The 'Edinburgh' bookshop.

Griffin & Tatlock Ltd:  Johnston Terrace, pure chemicals for photography

Hislop & Day:  commercial, technical and industrial photography.

Ilford Ltd:  Multigrade paper.

Francis C Inglis & Son:  Photostat reproduction service.

Jenners:  Princes Street department store:

Johnson:  Meritol-Metol rapid super fine grain developer

Kodak:  Bromesko paper

May & Baker:  chemicals: Promicrol, Cobrol, Amfix, Genochrome

Modern Camera Magazine:  incorporating 'Miniature Camera Magazine'.

Photography:  The journal photographers value 2/0d monthly, 25/0d pa.

The Plaza Ballroom:  Morningside Road, open every evening.

Reid & SIgrist:  R&S 35mm enlarger £32 0/0d,  35mm camera £109 10/0d.

Scottish Provident Institution:  life assurance.

-  G A Somerville:  Broughton Street:  radios and televisions.

Standard Life:  life assurance.

J B Watson Ltd:  Kodak cameras, Zeiss cameras, Ensign cameras.

G E Williamson (photographics) Ltd:  Glasgow, Miniature specialists.

 

Entries from Edinburgh

The following entries from Edinburgh were accepted in the 1953 exhibition.  Most or all of these entrants were EPS Members:

Photographer

Title

Miss G L Alison ARPS

Miss Joan Dickson, Violoncellist

W Forbes Boyd ARPS

Caught in a Noose of Light

G D Cruickshank

Float Line

Long Shadows

Alexander Dunbar ARPS

White Cliffs and Silent Sea

Rounding the Lighthouse

G Paterson

Mother's Day

L H Roberts

Against a Winter Sky
Storm Bent
Autumn Planes

James Scott

Consultation

 

 

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