Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-07
ART|N PHOTOGRAPHY
Annual Exhibition of the Capt.
tai Camera Club.
HIGH STANDARD Is UPHELD
Private View This Evening of Near.
~ Three Hundred Prints.
IN CORCORAN ART GALLERY
Will Be Open to the Public From
Tomorrow Afternoon Until
the Following Sunday.
IN C0RC0RAN ART GALLERY

The Capital Came-a Clubs nineteenth
annual exhibition of pictorial photo
graphs, whicl will be opened this even
Ing with a private view and reception in
the Hemicyc.e Hall of the Corcoran Gal
lery of Art, is interesting and worthy.
Comprising nearly three hundred p, ints
it upholds a high standard and demon
strates patiently the possibilities of pho
tography as a medium of artistic express
sion.
There are more Out-of-town exhibitors
than usual this year, prominent photog
raphers in Philadelphia. Chicago. Pitts
burg. WilkesbaIre and Baltimore making
notable contributions. The local work,
however. is found comparable with me
best and high general avereg e is main
tanned
According to a custom. now long estab-
Ushed, the pictu. eS in This exhibition he
selected by jury composed exc .ustveiy
OF artists who are no. pho. Ograp-.e. s.
Thus tie possibility of photographs being
admitted because OF technical merit is
Obviated and tat they shall be judged
on.y by result, as works of art, assured
1t is Interesting to consider VIVA. might
be the character of an exhibition OF
paintings selected after this same man
ner by a jury composed entirely of lay
men. Be that as il may, the outcome in
tie present ans -ance rs eXcelIe.4t, the pic
lures shown having intrinsic interest.
No priLtS are oheIed, no pre-e.n.nence
given. II being accounted an nonor to be-
come an exhibitor having work passed
by the jury. and all must and do stand
on an equal footing.
Arranged alphabetically.
The exhibits are arranged in groups al
phabetically, according to the names OF
the exhibitors, and are numbered con-
secutiveiy. That is, the exhibition opens
with a group of seven photographs by
Mr.. Abbott and closes with q group of
eleven by Mr.. Zimmerman. AS photo
graphs still in monotint, and there
fore are uniformly harmonious, this is
well within the range of possibility, and
adds imlneasurably to the comfort of the
visitor who resorts to the use of a cata-
logue.
Pictorial photography is comparatively
new thing: in fact, Photography in any
form is new as most things are reck-
oned. But the possibility of interpret
ing artistic effects through a process
la1 gely mechanical is an idea which has
only within the last few years begun to
be realized. When the ability to take
pictures by pressing a button and point
Ing little window in the right dire ction
ceased to be miracle then those with
artistic temperaments and adventurous
souls began wondering if they could not
do something more. The result was THAT
the hrst efforts were eXtreme-that step
ping not infrequenty by accident over
the border the camerists went whooping
way over to the other side. and for a
time exhibitions were filled with fuzzy
pictures, faint Impressions out-of-focus
images, which were but ghosts Of those
things which they emuiated and to which
they aspired. This Is often the case; il
u found in painting and in sculpture. a
new path is opened up. and the way
farers for while run frantic But II
does not last long, they settle down. the
fur"Hr '""' truths remain the same.
The majority of the work displayed
the Capital Camera Clubs nineteenth
annual exhibition is sane and conserva-
= tive. Structure has not been disregardeC
IN effort TO obtain effect, composition