Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1906 (Heft 14))

workers. The collection consisted of thirty-one Demachys; eight Puyos
(including two of his color experiments); three prints by Celine Laguarde;
three by René Le Bègue; two by Georges Grimprel, and one each by
Maurice Bremard, G. Besson, and A. Hachette. The exhibition was virtually
one devoted entirely to gum-prints. In a later number we shall refer to it
more fully, and with illustrations.
Exhibition III consisted of a series of photographs by Mr. Herbert G.
French,of Cincinnati,illustrating portions of Tennyson's“Idylls of the King.”
The purpose of this series is to suggest, in relatively the same order, the
varied human emotions portrayed in certain portions of the Tennyson version
of the Arthurian legend, commonly called the " Idylls of the King,” such
was the foreword of the catalogue. We hope to refer to this remarkable
collection of forty-five prints in some future issue of Camera Work.
In the first ten weeks of these exhibitions the attendance was consid-
erably over three thousand , and it included the best element of the New York
public, although comparatively few photographers. The cultured public’s
vital interest, as shown in their attendance at the successive exhibitions, and
their liberal purchases of prints—at prices which but a short time ago seemed
impossible — proves that our own propaganda has not been in vain. The
sales in the first two exhibitions amounted to six hundred and twenty-eight
dollars, nineteen prints finding purchasers. While the cultured public
naturally includes some photographers, it is rather to the connoisseur than to
the mere camerist that the Photo-Secession endeavors to appeal. There are
neither cards issued nor admission charged to the Little Galleries, presenta-
tion of visiting-cardbeing sufficient to obtain entrance.
WORCESTER ART MUSEUM.
At the recent exhibition held at the Art Museum, Worcester, Mass.,
the Photo-Secession was represented by a Loan Collection, which, as usual,
was hung as a unit and which, according to the press,was the most interesting
note of the entire exhibition. Mr. Frederick H. Pratt, the newly elected
Fellow of the Photo-Secession, was the moving spirit in arranging the
Worcester Exhibition.
EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ART AT THE CINCINNATI MUSEUM.
An invitation collection of seventy-five prints was shown at the
Cincinnati Art Museum from February 11 to March 5. The preface
of the simple but beautifully printed and arranged catalogue reads as fol-
lows: “During the past few years there has been a movement of constantly
increasing importance toward the establishment of photography among the
fine arts. Possibly the most active organized effort in this direction has
been conducted by the Photo-Secession, whose headquarters are in New
York City, but whose members are to be found throughout the entire
country. The Photo-Secession is a society of protest against the use of
photography as a purely mechanical means of reproduction; and its chief
object is the establishment of photography as a recognized art-medium.
The present exhibition is secured through the effort of one of the members

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