Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1905 (Heft 10))

BUFFALO CAMERA CLUB.
The Buffalo Camera Club has made an ambitious attempt to arouse
public interest in the pictorial side of photography, led on by the contagious
enthusiasm of Mr. Spencer Kellogg, Jr. The Secessionists contributed some
thirty frames. A noteworthy feature of the exhibition was the refined and
graceful catalogue, so unlike the usual run of this sort of thing.

OUR ILLUSTRATIONS.
As Mrs. Gertrude Käsebier is one of our most prolific photographers
as well as one of the foremost pictorialists, it needs no apology from us to
present our readers with a new series of her work. The photogravures
were all made directly from the original, unretouched negatives, and represent
absolutely straight photography, thus proving once more that individuality,
strength, and feeling are possible without the slightest manipulation other
than lens, lighting, developing, and printing.
Mr. C. Yarnall Abbott, President of the Photographic Society of Phil-
adelphia, has long been a laborer in the vineyard of pictorial photography,
and as an exhibitor is known throughout the world. This number contains
two examples of his work—one reproduced from a gum-print and the other
from a glycerine platinotype. Like Clarence H. White, Mr. Abbott has
turned his efforts toward illustration, and the plate “ Madame Butterfly,"
which is herein reproduced through the courtesy of the Century Company, is
one of a series of illustrations made by Mr. Abbott for that pathetic story
of the same name.
In our bow to the public, almost three years ago, we declared that our
pages would be open to matter of a scientific kind, so long as it represented
originality and exceptional merit. Mr. Norman W. Carkhuff, of the U. S.
Geological Survey, has assured us of the scientific worth and interest of the
fossil photographs herein reproduced. The reproductions have been passed
upon and approved by the “Survey,” which is sufficient guarantee that they
are of value to the scientist, and Mr. Carkhuff in his article explains the
difficulties overcome in achieving this result.

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