Can Photography ever be an Art? (Art Workers Guild), 1925
End Date: 11 December 1925
Type: Lecture and discussion
Description: Annual general meeting. Adoption of report, election of new members. J. Cooke, seconded by S. Nicholson Babb, suggested a 'very stringent rule in relation to publication in the Press of the proceedings of the Guild'. R. Hallward, F. Newbolt, A. G. Wyon and N. Wilkinson, after which Cooke withdrew his notion.
After the interval, H. Speed spoke on the subject 'Can Photography ever be an Art', followed by A. Rackham, W. Bayes, R. R. Goulden, H. T. Smith, P. Tudor-Hart, G. Rhys-Jenkins, C. F. A. Voysey, Dockree and E. J. Sullivan (AWG annual report, 1925, p. 8).
Policy: 'Meetings are held fortnightly, when papers are read and their subjects illustrated as fully as possible. Visitors must be introduced by a member' (Year's Art, 1913, pp. 169-70).
Participants
Speaker Richard Reginald Goulden
Speaker Percyval Tudor-Hart
Speaker Allan Gairdner Wyon
Speaker Harold Speed
Speaker Arthur Rackham
Speaker Charles Francis Annesley Voysey
Citing this record
'Can Photography ever be an Art? (Art Workers Guild), 1925', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/event.php?id=msib2_1218815390, accessed 30 May 2023]
