Just a couple of notices at the start of the meeting this month, after the rent money, the coffee morning made £151. As this was the final event where the exhibition prints were on display it would be helpful if members could collect them at the next meeting.
Our presenter for the evening was Richard Brown FRPS, FIPF, FACI(M), EFIAP, APAGB a winner of both domestic and international awards for his audio visuals.
One of the many AVs that Richard showed us featured Dennis Thorpe and his photographs “Final Frame”. Many members will have seen and heard Dennis talking about his work as a photographer at the guardian Newspaper. Keith won the print he donated of his acclaimed Ribble Head photograph in our anniversary competition a little while ago. However, Richard focused on the memories Dennis had of LS Lowrie and another of his renowned prints. “Final Frame” was the title of the AV and it was a reference to the coats hanging in the hall on the day that Dennis came across the workmen clearing the house following the death of Lowrie.
Another of the AVs that Richard showed us was one featuring the Black Country Museum, a place he knows well.
Below and on the left is an image from a moving AV entitled “Remember the Quarrymen” which showed us numerous images from the quarrying of slate.
“The Tiny World of Walter Zapp” had us puzzling as to what it could be about but all was revealed as Richard explained that it was about the creation and use of a tiny miniature camera by the afore mentioned Walter, who was the Latvian inventor of the Minolta camera seen below right.
The “Cost of War” was a moving presentation with images relating to the “Great War” now referred to as World War 1. The “Power of Memories” had images from a factory and its surroundings that featured very prominently in the younger life of Richard and his family.
A satirical show with only 4 images “Outside Broadcast” played on the idea of working very slow, whilst “Attention Shoppers” was stimulated by an idea in the Big Issues magazine and suggested a revolutionary way of purchasing goods by actually going to a “Shop” where the goods could actually be seen, bought and taken home with you, there and then. Extraordinary!
Lastly and to send us all home humming a jolly tune was “Mr Blue Skies”. This was an AV all about Birmingham and it was filled with lots of wonderful images taken in Birmingham with not a rain cloud in the sky.
Thankyou Richard for a wonderfully entertaining and thought provoking evening and we hope you will have lots more success in the future.