Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-05-29
CAMERA CLUB
Has Arranged For Exhi-
bition of Pictures.
Many Out-of. Town Exhibitors-Enter.
tanned the Press.

! In giving It's second annual public
exhibition of camera pictures the Ak
ron Camera club offers free to all the
results of years thought in few
gems, CLEANED and garnered from the
field of thousand efforts, travels
and disappontments.
Yet in this collection the members
who have worked so pprsistently feel
that they may take pride and encour-
agement. because of the marked pro-
gress made during the year, and with
the firm ground under their feet and
the solid knowledge toward true art
work with the camera gained. together
with the increased ability acquired to
enjoy all that is good and true in pic
lures everywhere, including that match-
less picture-book Dame Nature, which
is open to all who will open the covers
and learn the alphabet OF her Iau-
guage.
In addition to their own work, the
members of the club have secured rep
resentativc pictures from abroad, by
the leaders in the field of picture
: photography. These men and women,
believe that the camera is a means TO
an end and can be made TO do tho
bidding Of trained intelligent mind.
| 1t has been uphill work TO get pho
Biography recognized as an art, and it
WAS left for the amateur, the real
lover of the sport TO do this. And
right here, is place to correct the
popular error of the conception of the
amateur photographer The lover of
the sport" not the snapshot ''fiend'
who fires nj everything in sight, re-
gardlcss of condition. circumstance or
surrounding.
/ These real amateurs are. some of
them men and women VINO nave given
years Of study to art ana have used
that knowledge their time. and their
memory To prove their position toward
photography, until now ii is conceded
by the wielders of brush and chiscl
that artistic pictures may Dc made by
the camera.
| Among the contributors TO the Ak
ron collection, now on view at the club
rooms, are:
| Ohio's leader. Clarence II. White,
Newark. six pictures; Mary Stans-
bury, GAINESVILLE, o.. two picturesi
Catherine Stransbury, GAINESVILLE, o.,
three pictures; Virginia Abbot, Phil
adelphia. Pa. one picture; c. Iarnell-
Abbot, Philadelphia, Pa, one picture;
H. T. Pond, New York, one picture;
Hewcll A. Beasley, Baltimore, TWO pic
lures: |. G. Brenan. Marietta, o., three
pictures: c. f. Cornin. Marietta, o.,
two pictures W. l.. Carlin. New York
city. one picture; +. Holland Day Bos-
ton. seven pictures: Il. Lee Ferguson,
Washington, one picture; Joseph L.
Kelley. Brooklyn. three pictures; l.. II.
Peddinghaus. Marietta, o.. six pic
lures: Il. :. Redlield. Wayne, Pa, one
picture: Edmund Stirling, Philadel-
pha, Pa, two pictures; Henry Iroth,
Philadelphia, Pa, two pictures; Amei'
in Van Burcn. Detroit, TWO pictures;
Eva Lawrence Watson, Philadelphia,
Pa. five pictures; Mathilde We'll, Phii-
adclpha. Pa, one picture; q. Il, Vail
lean. Ouowa, Canada, two pictures;
q. Il. Fisher Massachusetts, Newton
Highlands.
1t is hardly probable that another
opportunity will soon come to the peo-
ple of Akron to see such examples OF
This art free of cost. Productions
that are many of them beyond the CONS
prehension of many of MS, hut val
uable as II means of education ana a'l'
yanced thought, certainty stepping
stone in the stairway we are all trying
to climb. The ladder of know
more"
ENTERTAINED THE PRESS.
The Akron Camera club entertained
renresentatives of the press at their
rooms last evening, the exhibition pe-
ing omen to that body only Muen
interest was shown and expressions OF
surprise and pleasure M the excel
,cncc and variety of pictures on view
were heard from all Every one seein-
cd TO enjoy the treat and hoped for
successful exhibition, which. VIII be
omen TO the public on May 30, ana
convene until Monday, June 4,
ii. w. NJ.