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York Camera Club: The Club der Amateur-Photo-graphen in Vienna (later named the Wiener Kamera Klub), the Gessellschaft zur Forderung der Amateur Photographic (Society for Promoting Amateur Photography) in Hamburg, the Photo-Club de Paris, the Camera Qub of London, the Society of Amateur Photographers of New York, and the New York Camera Club were i institutions of an importance far beyond the usual mea ing of the word "club." Their members were overwhek ingly those amateurs who were referred to in the pre as "serious" or "advanced."We Americans cannot afford to stand still; we have the best of material among us, hidden in many cases; let us bring it out . . . let's start afresh with an Annual Photographic Salon to be run upon the strictest lines.... There is no better instructor than public exhibitions. . . . The writer will, with much pleasure, sacrifice time and money to bring about a revolution in photographic exhibitions in the United States. In 1896 Stieglitz was instrumental in the merging of the Society of Amateur Photographers and the New York Camera Club into a new society, The Camera Club of New York, with spacious quarters. He was elected the club's vice president and became its dynamic leader-some said dictator. Theodore Dreiser, in an article on the club, wrote that Stieglitz had three goals: "First, to elevate the standards of pictorial photography in this country; second, to give an annual national exhibition...; and third, to establish a national academy of photography."
Bunnell, Peter, ed. A Photographic Vision: Pictorial Photography, 1889-1923. Salt Lake City, Utah: Peregrine Smith, 1980. Caffin, Charles H. Photography as a Fine Art: the Achievement and Possibilities of Photographic Art in America. 1901. Reprint, with introduction by Thomas F. Barrow. Dobbs Ferry, X.Y.: Morgan & Morgan, Inc., 1971. Camera Notes: Official Organ of the Camera Club of New York. 6 vols. 1897-1903. Reprint, with index by Kate Davis. New York: Da Capo Press, 1978. |
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