Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-27
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| The Capital Camera Clubs seventeenth
annual exhibition. which opens this even
| ing with private view and reception in
! the hemicycle hall OF the Corcoran Gal
| lery of Art contains much excellent work
and constitutes an event Of more than
! passing interest. Over two hundred
prints are included in it's catalogue, and
while the ajorfty of these are by local
photographers-memb of the Capital
Camera Club and others-some have been
| sent from as far as Nevada.
| On account of the fact that the Camera
| Club was unable to use it's rooms last
summer, while the Walters building was
undergoing repairs. it was feared that tine
exhibition this year might fall below the
standard. but apparently this fear was
groundless, for never before has 4 better
collection of pictures been assembled for
exhibition under the same auspices.
Opportunity for Comparison.
| Following close upon the heels of the
Society of Washington Artists annual
exhibition, opportunity is given to insti-
| tute comparisons between the OUTPUT of
| the camerists and their brothers of TIE
brush. Both have much the same din
| culties to contend with and the same
problems to solve; the one deals, now
| ever, of Snecess!ty with stubborn facts,
whereas the other has boundless liberty
photographer must take nature as he
finds it and patiently await his oppor-
tunity to capture the effect he desires.
whereas the painter may rearrange his
compositions and trust TO his memory
when time presses. But in spite of this
narrower latitude it would seem that the
pictorial photographers excel In the choice
of subject, displaying in their work IA
pictorial instinct which the present-day
painters as. a class do not possess.
This does not. of course: refer TO mere
prettiness which is a trivial quality, but
to beauty of the nobler sort. which, while
readily recognized, is more rare. To a
great extent the photographs in this ex-
hibition show excellent composition and
unusual effects of light and shade. so that
while possessing subjective interest they
interpret effects rather than reproduce
mere form. To be sure, 1t may be OBJ
jected that the man who employs the
camera as a medium is of necessity
his work being subjective. rather than
technical-but THAT is exactly the point
which should be emphasized-While the
photographers are considering what they
do the painters are absorbed in the way
they do 1t. Not that one would suggest
the ascendency of photography over paint
ing-each occupies a separate field and one
can never replace the other-there are,
however. lessons to be learned and here
Is suggestive material.
Jury of Selection.
In order to insure the artistic merit of
the prints included i'm this exhibition d
Jury of artists was again asked to make
the selection. This jury consisted of Mr..
Richard y. Brooke, president of the So
ciety of Washington Artists: Mr.. James
Henry Moser president of the Washing
ton Water Color Club: Mr. f. C.. Messer,
principal Of the Corcoran School OF Art.
and Mr. Harold Macdonald, the we'll
known portrait painter Doubtless much
credit Is due to this jury's wise discrimi-
nation for from its decisions there was
no appeal. but obviously the material