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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 8, No. 6. May 25, 1945

Photos!

Photos!

I was surprised that "Salient" did not show normal editorial courtesy in giving me the chance to comment on an attack at the time of its publication. Your correspondent is welcome enough to say that I have no specific ability. I could laugh this off by producing copies of Picture Post, Pix, Unclimbed New Zealand, Making New Zealand, Journal of the atonal Geographical Society, Geographical Magazine, but that might presuppose an earnestness that sits more snugly on my critics than on myself. Perhaps a more sensible course would be for me to ignore the bitter personalities of the attack, and to offer to show through an epidiascope, if available, the camera club members a series of documentary photographs that I hold to justify my strong comment in "Spike," and then to listen amiably to what your disgruntled competitors have to say to my face. I should not offer to take this course unless the Camera Club assures me that I should not be boring them or wasting my time. Nothing that I can do can stay the decline of prostituted camerawork as represented by the formal glamours of the orthodox photographic t competition, but I am always willing to discuss dispassionately the art which honest cameras can produce.

John Pascoe.

We understand that the [unclear: Cama] Club will attempt to arrange such an evening. We apologies for our lack of courtesy.

—Ed.