The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-23
PICTURES FOR PRIZES.
CAMERA CLUES FALL EXHIBITION
TO TAKE PLACE NOV. rs AND 20.


New Features VIII BE Added This
Year-Prixes to BE Awarded for
the Best Series of Five Pictures
Illustrating Sidney Lanier's Poem
"The Marshes of Glynn' Rules
BE Awarded.
The Savannah Camera Club has fixed
the dates of its annual fall exhibition
for Nov 2S and 49, Thanksgiving Day
and the day following The exhibition
this year will be for the guests of the
club. Invitations will be ISSUED some
time in advance, and an effort will be
made to have the exhibition excel, both
in the number and merit of pictures any
that the dub has yet given. A number
of new features win be added one of
which will be a contest in illustra tions
of Sidney Lanier's poem, 1.-The Marshes
of Glynn." The club in this innovation
purposes to develop the ability of its
members in original illustrative work.
1.-THE Marshes of Glynn' offers a wide
field for landscape and marine photog-
raphy and does not exclude even portraits
and Genre pictures The club will award
a prize for the best group or series of five
pictures illustrating the poem
The exhibition will include this year
. two sections or divisions of pictures,
those made wholly by the exhibitor and
those made by two or more persons, as
sisted by amateurs or professionals, the
sections being designated as assisted
and "unassisted." The pictures will be
marked in the exhibition as assisted or
"unassisted' to designate whether they
have been made wholly by the member
exhibiting them or whether they are the
work of two or more persons. There will
be no limit to the number of pictures al
lowed to be entered by each exhibitor and
no entrance fee will be charged. The
pictures in the exhibition will be further
classified as:
Portraits and portrait groups,
Genre pictures,
Landscapes, embracing all pictures
in which the principal interest is in the
view, but which may contain people, ami
mails, houses, ETC., the principal interest,
however, being in the picture outside of
these,
Architectural subjects, interiors, etc.
Animal life.
Still life, including pictures of trees,
flowers, fruit, implements, ETC., and copies
of pictures.
Enlargements
Combination pictures, made from more
than one negative.
Another class will include the pictures
entered as Illustrations of Laniers poem,
any one or all of which may be entered
in any of the other classes.
no 1fe+in IN rio1
upon which the pictures are made. No
picture that has been entered in any ex-
hibition or that has been published in a
book or magazine will be eligible. A first
or second prize will be awarded to the
best two pictures in each of the nine
classes, and contestants winning the first
prize in any class win not be eligible for
the second in the same class. The club
medal will be awarded to the member ex-
hibiting the best four pictures distributed
over two or more classes in the unas-
sisted section, the winner of the medal
holding it until the next exhibition.
The Exhibition Committee will not re-
ceive pictures later than s O'Clock p. IN.
Nov 26 and from then until the exhibit
ton opens on the afternon of Nov. % the
exhibition room will be closed except to
the members of the committee. The
prizes will be awarded by majority vote
Of the club on the night preceding the
opening of the exhibition. The exhibition
hours will be from to II o'clock p. m, on
Thursday, Nov %, and Friday, Nov. 2S
The opportunity for illustrative photo
graphy afforded by Danier's poem and the
interest in landscape photography during
the summer have aroused lively interest
among the members Of the club, and thers
is every assurance that its fall exhibition
will include larger number of pictures
Of greater merit than have ever been en-
tered in any previous exhibition.