The Archive · 1929

CHINA PHOTOGRAPHIC

SOCIETY

The Chinese View of the Camera Art The Saluting Base.

Photo by Lai Charg.

The China Photographie Society' exhibition in the Sassoon was a very small affair interesting from the point of. view of the foreigner wha anxious to discover the purely Chinese iden of good photograph) chief impression we carried was that very H: tle attention been paid to actual excellence of photography, even making full allow. ance for the modern tendency to attain softness and mellow effects by transgressing the usual yules of focus, we must express our decided the Croat majority of the exhibits were distinctly out of focus and far too blurred to be characterized as good photographs. Tu such manner are quite a number of delightful ined, depth, and distance entirely lost, theless, the suhiects chosen were in themselves att some for their thers for thei ews and Otherwise really. beautiful crereflections, by Chen, ced a Chinese baby The March-Past of the Troops.

Dart ho conan tae meat LOCAL CELEBRATION OF THE KING'S—ie atmtunci Cie iailowed ENGINEERS: really artistic picture "Before the

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