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Harry C. [Cogswell] Rubincam, Esthetic Activity in Photography
DOI Heft:[The Announcement of the Sudden and Awful Death of J. Wells Champney, unsigned and untitled text]
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The stunted vision has driven out the dweller in the soul, and when the
mistress comes, seeking her offspring, she sees written in the false messages
of the narrow mind: “ Seek elsewhere, madame; there was no room here
for me.”
When you consider, then, that the coincidence of all these necessities is
all too rare, and that in the few instances many are thus diverted, is there
any real cause for marveling at the lack of esthetic activity among
photographers ? Harry C. Rubincam.
The announcement of the sudden and awful death of J. Wells Champney
on May first, awakened in the breast of stranger as well as friend a shock of
sickening horror. To his friends — and he was of that gentle, lovable dis-
positions that made it impossible for the world to hold for him any other
classes among men than friends and strangers, for to know him was to be
his friend—the dread announcement, that came with the shock of a thunder-
clap from a clear sky, marshaled up with a flash all their past memories of
the man—creating in their hearts a great void of deep personal regret at his
loss, and an overwhelming sense of sympathy for his bereaved family.
J. Wells Champney was among the first of the American painters to
take seriously the original pictorial possibilities of photography, and was
among the pioneers of the pictorial movement in America. By his interest
in the movement, his belief in its possibilities, and his kindly and intelligent
criticism of the efforts of many of his associates who had not had the
advantage of an art-training, he not only encouraged the more serious of
those earlier workers of whom he was one of the foremost, but helped very
materially to strengthen and forward the cause itself.
By his death the pictorial movement has lost a staunch supporter and
all who know him a good friend; and, if a man’skindly acts and generous
deeds and words can bear him companionship beyond those boundaries past
which the living may not go, J. Wells Champney is not lacking numerous
and admirable company.
mistress comes, seeking her offspring, she sees written in the false messages
of the narrow mind: “ Seek elsewhere, madame; there was no room here
for me.”
When you consider, then, that the coincidence of all these necessities is
all too rare, and that in the few instances many are thus diverted, is there
any real cause for marveling at the lack of esthetic activity among
photographers ? Harry C. Rubincam.
The announcement of the sudden and awful death of J. Wells Champney
on May first, awakened in the breast of stranger as well as friend a shock of
sickening horror. To his friends — and he was of that gentle, lovable dis-
positions that made it impossible for the world to hold for him any other
classes among men than friends and strangers, for to know him was to be
his friend—the dread announcement, that came with the shock of a thunder-
clap from a clear sky, marshaled up with a flash all their past memories of
the man—creating in their hearts a great void of deep personal regret at his
loss, and an overwhelming sense of sympathy for his bereaved family.
J. Wells Champney was among the first of the American painters to
take seriously the original pictorial possibilities of photography, and was
among the pioneers of the pictorial movement in America. By his interest
in the movement, his belief in its possibilities, and his kindly and intelligent
criticism of the efforts of many of his associates who had not had the
advantage of an art-training, he not only encouraged the more serious of
those earlier workers of whom he was one of the foremost, but helped very
materially to strengthen and forward the cause itself.
By his death the pictorial movement has lost a staunch supporter and
all who know him a good friend; and, if a man’skindly acts and generous
deeds and words can bear him companionship beyond those boundaries past
which the living may not go, J. Wells Champney is not lacking numerous
and admirable company.
