The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-18
Call the camera man!

Call the camera man!
 We are going to have a closeup of the big photographs section ex-1 hibit of the Alabama Art League, which begins next Tuesday. on which occasion the photographers of Bir mingham-and some. exhibitors from other cities will display some of their rarest and most artistic work.
 With real gratitude, lovers of beautiful photography view the pro- gressiveness of the Alabama Art . League in presenting its first exhibit of photography here this week, an innovation which is at once enter taining as well as educational. We once viewed photography as an ordeal to be met like going to the dentist or the doctor, but nowadays with the beautiful studios, the invit- ing environment and the clever pho tographers-the occasion is made quite agreeable, rather than an oc- casion to be unpleasantly anticipated.
 When the doors are thrown open next Tuesday to the public for the first photographic section exhibit of the Alabama Art League. there will be beautiful exhibitions of artistic. commercial, and aerial photography by both professionals and amateurs.
 The leading studios of Birming ham and vicinity-Bessemer, Ensley and other cities-will be represented, while Montgomery will send an ex- hibit by one of her leading photo graphers and Living ton wi.l be rep resented by one of ner best amateur photographers.
 There will be varying degrees Of i artistic photography shown in lights and shades--blacks and whites and sepias-- of children. >debutantes old CT people-all done in the newest and most modern manner.
 Nothing lends itself mroe beau tifully to artistic photography than a child.
 The charm of . childish head, though maybe only a street urchin playing by a fountain in some little Italian town, or seen against the backsround of green in some old Italian garden. enraptured the. great painter Andrea del sarto, and gave us the immortal St. John.
 To Correggio. pondefing oV what the vision of St. Sebastian might have been came mother clasping her bambino in her arms.
 He put them on canvas and called the picture the Madonna ana Child of St. Sebastian"
 quaint little English maiden wandered into the dimness of Sir John Reynolds studio. .4s Then and there he fixed the vision son canvas and the darling Straw berry Girl" of paintland came to birth.
 Maidens of high degree, like the Countess Spencer, and simple chil- dren whose birthright WIS loveliness, the great Sir Joshua made immortal by his brush.
 0sllldio AdhSiAdAfy hdulcQ tdnVdSeS are often portraits of persons of mo- ble birth. or they may Dc unknown children whose simple beauty de- lighted him.
 The French painter, too, John Bap- fiste Greuze, who lived late in the eighteenth century, had the honor of painting princesses and high-born children. He immortalized a won- derful type of Gallic beauty.
 What would he have said and thought wonder. and what would his more or less aristocratically-in- clined conforces have said and thought, if they saw the faces of some Of Birmingham's beautiful .cbildren lined up side by side with their most famous productions. and bearing the comparisons not at all unsuccessfully?
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