CAMERA PORTRAITS IN SIMPSON SHOW
Work of Richard Morawetz Features Characteristic Poses of Children
"People As I Saw Them", is the title of an interesting exhibition of informal camera portraits which features studies of many Torontonians
now on display in the Avon House Galleries at Simpson's.
The photographer, Richard Morawetz, formerly of Prague, Czechoslovakia, and now head of a Toronto firm manufacturing overalls, is not interested in camera work from a commercial standpoint but rather as a hobby - "something to prevent him getting old too quickly."
By far the greater number of the 58 studies on display are of children. The "little mischiefs", as Mr. Morawetz described them. None of the photographs are retouched and each one is a study in itself. Particularly outstanding are three photographs of golden-haired Penny Stride. A Chinese infant with his fingers in his mouth; Nick Ignatieff struggling with a sock; Roderick Wessels, grandson of
C. L. Burton; Harrison Gilmour's son, David; three studies of Norman Flett, son
of the surgeon and grandson of the late Norman Somerville are included in the exhibition.
Mrs. Richard Morawetz appears in her husband's exhibition, as does his nephew
Frank Morawetz, and his wife. Studies also include those of C. L. Burton, Mrs. M. Weinman, A.
G. Bennett, Charles Easson and the late Leopold Sachs.
A manufacturer, Mr. Morawetz fled Czechoslovakia in 1939.
