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THE AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNAL.

July 20, 1896

TI(E INTERCOLONIAL EXHIBITION AND CONGRESS OF PHOTOGRAPHY, 1896.

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EXHIBITION PICTURES.—(Continued from page 131.)

OLLOWING the descriptions given in our issues for May and June, we now deal with some of the Loan Exhibits.

Taking these as they appear in the catalogue, a copy of which has been recently received, the first to claim notice is the exhibit of the Sandell Works Co , London.

This firm sends a number of frames illustrating work done on the special styles of plates which are manufactured by them ; many of these are of exceptionally difficult interiors, and others have been chosen for the purpose of showing that, even when the lens is pointed in the very teeth of the light, these plates will rise to the occasion. A typical subject is one which was reproduced in some of the photographic journals two or three years ago, and shows a portrait taken by magnesium flash-light, the blaze of light representing the burning magnesium being shown on the same plate.

The result is perfect—no trace of halation, and the figure harmoniously lighted, and this one print is sufficient to show conclusively that the advantages ot the triple-coated plates have not been overrated.

As examples of special work, many of the photographs comprising this exhibit are deserving of close study.

Mawson and Swan, the well-known plate makers, exhibit material; and a striking exhibit is a series of negatives from black and white subjects which have been made on their photo-mechanical plates, and which, so far as can be judged without closer scrutiny than we have had an opportunity of indulging in, rival the results which are said to be inseparable from the collodion process when photo-litho. and other photo-mechanical work in which great density, coupled with extreme clearness, are requisite. They appear to present perfect opacity in the high lights, and clear glass where the lines exist.

Luxiiere and Sons, of Lyons, France, show plates and papers ; and Robertson and Moffat, of Melbourne, have sent a number of magnificent autotypes, the work of The Autotype Company, London.

Among the pictures lent by Mr. W. H. Gill, we notice two or three old friends in the form of pictures by the veteran H. P. Robinson, whose recent additions to pictorial photography with equally picturesque and harmonious writing, even when under the banner of literary warfare, prove that, though advancing in years, he is “ worth more than several dead ones yet.”

Patterson and Co., of Melbourne, exhibit high-class process work, and the Working Men's College shows a general exhibit consisting of carbon prints, talbotyes, collotypes, etc., as well as bromide enlargements of portions of the college buildings taken during erection.

An extensive exhibit of large silver prints is on view near these bromide enlargements, and we were unable to ascertain definitely who had lent them or whose work they were. They consist of locomotives, railway-station buildings, bridges, and other railway works in Victoria; and close inspection reveals the fact that they are copies—possibly enlargements from silver prints—but so well executed are they that, though hung without frames or glass, and bearing the evidence of having been rather roughly used, a casual observer would be liable to mistake many of them for prints from direct negatives.*

Falk and Co., Melbourne, exhibit work on Barnet paper, the bulk of which is quite up to the high standard with which we are accustomed to associate the work of this studio. A very interesting exhibit shown by Mr. H. W. Barnett, is a collection of photo-chromes, from the Photo-Chromo Co., of Zurich. These are, speaking generally, well executed. The colouring may in a few instances be a little high, but, apart from this, the exhibit is a very interesting onee and is also attractive, the colour affording relief to the eye in the midst of so large a quantity of black and white work.

Mendelssohn and Co., of Melbourne, have a show of portrait work which sustains the firm’s reputation, some of the portraits printed in platinum being worthy of special praise.

The Amateur Photographic Association of Victoria sends an exhibit which is non-competitive. This contains probably as much work as is shown by any other society, and much of it is of high class. It consists for the most part of landscapes, buildings, marine views and enlargements; but the same variety in printing processes which characterises some of the other society exhibits is absent, and as a whole the exhibit does not reflect the greatest credit upon this Society, for, on comparing our notes on its work shown in this building in 1895, there is neither the same variety nor the same extent of work exhibited. Some fine enlargements have been sent in unframed, and, as there seems to have been insufficient wall-room, they have been ‘‘hung up on the floor.” Other work, small in detail, has been skied; and, as a whole, the work does not do credit to this Association.

Harrington & Co., Ltd., Sydney, show some very fine Enlargements upon Fuller’s Bromide Papers, smooth and rough, and on Bromyta Paper by the same maker. These specimens are untouched, and exemplify well the fine detail, depths of shadows, and general brilliancy of the work that can be produced with these papers. Most

* We have since been informed that these prints are from negatives taken some years ago by Mr. T. F. McGaurin, Govt, Photo-lithograper of the Crown Lands, Department, Melbourne, and that they are, as we surmised, enlarged copies of silver prints. We do not yet know who exhibited them,

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