Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-21
ANNUAL EXHIBITION
Of the Capital Camera Club
Opens Tonight
AT C0RC0RAN ART GALLERY
Only Work of Local Photographers in
Exhibit
SOME EXCELLENT PICTURES
Many Splendid Portraits, Landscapes
and Marine Views and a Few
Notable Genres Are Shown.
SOME EXCELLENT PICTURES

The fifteenth annual exhibition of the
Capital Camera Club. which opens this
evening In the hemicycle OF the Corcoran
Gallery OF Art with private view and re-
ceptOn, promises to be an interesting
event 1t consists entirely OF local work,
but upholds high standard.
The application of art principles to pho
Biography Is no longer novelty. but the re-
suits thereby attained are yet surprising.
The cameraist calls to his aid more me-
chanical apparatus than the artist. but he
is at the same time more hampered by lin
itatons. There is almost as much variety
In merits of photographs as there Is in
paintings. and with much less excuse.
Photography. since the first. has been
looked upon by the uninitiated
cidental high art. and the ultra-artistic
have rather fostered the impression of mys-
terry promulgated by the requisite dark
room. with all chemical process there is an
element of chance and a degree OF mys-
terry. but photography Is less dependent
upon these for It's success than Is often
supposed. The principles of composition,
the arrangement of line and the distribu-
ton of light and shade which govern
painting apply equally to a photograph.
These once mastered the pictorial photog-
rapher has more than fair chance of sue
cess.
IN order TO emphasize the artlSUC SIDE
and to insure along these lines the excel
lence OF the exhibition, no photographer
was placed on the jury of selection, but in
stead five painters of distinction and crit
zeal repute They were Mr.. Richard n.
Brooke. president of the Society of Wash
ington artists: Mr.. Z. c. Messer. director
OF the Corcoran School; Mr.. James Henry
Moser. president of the Washington Water
Color Club: Mr.. Harold Macdonald and
Miss Mathilde Mueden.
Contrary to custom. the exhibit this year
Is limited to local work and is not only
current but retrospective This narrows
its scope, but rather increases, its inter-
est. for while there are probably less ex-
hibits. their character is equally varied and
no less notable.
Excellent Group of Prints.
Probably in no exhibition of pictorial pho
tographs shown in this city has more ex-
cellent group of prints been seen than that
which Mrs. ]. f. Bennett contributes to the
present show. Her photographs are works
OF art There are nineteen In all. and
almost without exception they are charm
fngiy composed and beautifully rendered.
One of a Woman Churning'' suggests by
its strength and virility q painting by Mil
let: another. Woman and Child" will be
found reminiscent In sentiment of the mod
ern Dutch painters. while a third. Soap
Bubbles has a charm and individuality all
its own. They are interpretations rather
than mere transcriptions. Mrs. Bennett has
skillfuliy made each a pict4ge, which. be-
yond its subjective Interest possesses a
beauty OF quality and tone
Certain outlines are lost, certain shadows
strengthened by a wise manipulation of
Hight. but nothing is slurred over or lost in
The popular haze. Mrs. Bennett in her