Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1904 (Heft 7))

impelled to cut loose from hoary traditions. In Vienna the old-time Camera
Club, long identified with the best interests of pictorial photography, for which
it faithfully battled, has been elbowed aside by the recently founded Wiener
Photo-Club. Such well-known members of the older organization as Kühn
and Henneberg, while still identified with the mother club, are giving their
active support to the offspring. This spring the Photo-Club has held its
first really important exhibition, to which the Photo-Secession was invited to
contribute. As seems to have become generally the chronic custom, the in-
vitation was sent at the half-past-eleventh hour, ordinarily too late to have
met with acceptance, and had it not been that the fastest liner afloat, the
“ Kaiser Wilhelm II,” was to sail two days after the receipt of the invita-
tion, the Secession could not have made timely connections, which indeed
would have been regrettable. As it was it was able to send thirty-three
pictures of equal merit to those sent to Dresden, thus assuring that the first
American representation in Vienna since 1897 would uphold the reputation
of modern American photography, which is well known in that art-center.
The Photo-Club of Paris is holding its regular annual salon as we go
to press. The Secession is amply represented with seventy pictures by
some thirty of its members.
The Hague, Holland, having also been infected with the exhibition
microbe, the disease followed the usual course and the Photo-Secession was
duly invited. The invitation called for two hundred pictures, which were
promptly forwarded. This is the first really important photographic exhi-
bition held in Holland. It is still open.
It is a pity that while one phase of American pictorial photography
should be represented with such splendid adequacy throughout Europe that
in our own St. Louis exhibition American pictorial photography of any note
should be without representation. None regret this more than the Secession,
but it has followed that course which to it seemed for the best interests of
photography.
We believe that all American photographers who have the best interests
of photography at heart will learn with pleasure that a probable outcome of
Mr. Horsley Hinton’s visit to America will be that work intended for the
London Photographic Salon may be submitted for approval to a Selection
Committee in New York, on which all American Links are eligible to serve.
At the time of going to press the details of this scheme are under discussion
and will need to be finally confirmed by the main body of the Linked Ring
at London, whereupon circulars will be issued immediately.
American photographers can not fail to appreciate the marked degree of
confidence in the judgment of the American “Links” which is implied by
this, the first, delegation of their powers on the part of the London Linked