Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1904 (Heft 6))

as I have done, how many vague hopes are shattered by just such uncon-
trollable accidents and influences, how many demonstrations of genius are
buried before they have seen the light of day, you would agree with me
that the quest for fame is the most futile of all futile quests.
Sadakichi Hartmann.

PHOTO-SECESSION NOTES.
THE TWO most important exhibitions of pictorial photographs held
in recent years in this country were held at the Corcoran Art Galleries
in Washington in January and at the Carnegie Art Galleries in Pittsburg
in February. The make-up and the details of these collections were under
the direction and according to the standards of the Photo-Secession. These
exhibitions were the outcome of the activity of Mr. Norman W. Carkhuff, an
Associate of the Secession, who acted in behalf of the Capital Camera Club
of Washington and of Mr. Lewis F. Stephany, also an Associate and Director
of the Camera Club of Pittsburg. At Washington one hundred and fifty-nine
pictures were shown, which completely filled the Hemicycle; while at Pitts-
burg, with its large exhibition-halls, the same in which the celebrated annual
International Exhibition of paintings is held, about three hundred pictures
were hung, the latter including all those shown at Washington. The Corcoran
exhibit was a success from every point of view, the Washingtonians displaying
an appreciative and intelligent interest, and during the twelve days that the
hall was open to the public over four thousand visitors studied the pictures.
On the first Sunday, between the hours of eleven and four, nine hundred
and ninety-seven visitors were admitted.
At Pittsburg the interest is equally great, the exhibition being still open
at this writing. In order to insure the complete carrying out of our ideas,
the Director of the Photo-Secession, accompanied by Messrs. Steichen, Keiley,
and Coburn, traveled both to Washington and Pittsburg to superintend the
hanging of the prints, a matter of great importance which is generally under-
estimated, as well as formally to open the halls to the public. The local
press showed much interest, devoting a large amount of space with the usual
inadequate newspaper illustrations to the Secession and all its works.
The catalogue of Washington included the work of the following : C.
Yarnall Abbott, Prescott Adamson, Arthur E. Becher, Jeanne E. Bennett,
Annie W. Brigman, John G. Bullock, Rose Clark, Alvin Langdon Coburn,
Mary Devens, William B. Dyer, Rud. Eickemeyer, Jr., Frank Eugene,
Tom Harris (deceased), Herbert Arthur Hess, S. Stockton Hornor, Gertrude
Käsebier, Joseph T. Keiley, Mary Keipp, William J. Mullins, William B.
Post, R. S. Redfield, W. W. Renwick, Harry C. Rubincam, Margaret M.
Russell, Eva Watson-Schütze, Sarah C. Sears, Katharine S. Stanbery, Mrs.
George A. Stanbery, Eduard J. Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Edmund Stirling,
John Francis Strauss, Myra A. Wiggins, S. L. Willard, Clarence H. White,
Mathilde Weil, and Arthur W. Wilde. At Pittsburg, all the above were
included, supplemented by F. T. Aschman, Sidney R. Carter, Fannie E.