EPS 

1955 Open Exhibition

The exhibition was held during the Edinburgh Festival.  The exhibition opened in August 1955, at YMCA Exhibition Hall, 4 Queen Street, 

Judges comments

"The quality of acceptances the visitors can judge for themselves.  What of those which were discarded?   Generally it may be said that while of course prints of poor technical quality were ruthlessly excluded a large number of technically perfect prints went out for no other reason than that they were barren of ideas or far too often merely copies of previous exhibition successes.  It needs only some original and competent worker to produce a new idea or a new treatment of an old subject, particularly if it has a dramatic impact, for dozens of other photographers to send in copies on the assumption that this is the kind of thing judges like!"

For many years, the EPS Exhibition was described as an Exhibition of Pictorial Photography.  Here is how the judges saw it:

"Then again, many entries, particularly from abroad, could be classified rather as photo-journalism in which print quality, general technique and composition were all sacrificed in order to record some particular incident of a startling nature.  Such pictures, of course have their place and play an important part in recording our daily lives, and are the raw material of a great deal of today’s illustrated journalism, but in no way can they be classified as pictorial photography.  Whether or not the selectors were right in excluding such pictures from this exhibition is a decision they are quite happy to leave in the hands of the visitors, who we feel will appreciate the quieter, more satisfying, and more lasting beauty of the display they have before them."

 

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Judges/Selectors:    1861-1910     1911-1960     1961-     Trophies

Exhibition Rules      1891

 

 

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