Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1906 (Heft 15))

PHOTO-SECESSION NOTES.

THE LITTLE GALLERIES.

THE series of exhibitions held at the Little Galleries of the
Photo-Secession was brought to a close May first. As Mr.
Caffin proposes to deal with the series as a whole in the next
issue of Camera Work, we shall merely enumerate the exhibi-
tions as they were held and not recorded in the last number of
this publication.

Exhibition IV was devoted to the work of Mrs. Gertrude Kasebier, of
New York ; and of Mr. Clarence H. White, Newark, Ohio. Each was
represented by twenty-seven prints.

Exhibition V consisted of British work. Mr. J. Craig Annan, of
Glasgow, Scotland, was represented by a series of portraits, landscapes,
studies, etc., etc. ; Mr. Frederick H. Evans, of London, by a series of his
well-known architectural subjects ; and D. O. Hill, R.S.A., deceased, by a
remarkable collection of photographic portraits made some sixty years ago.

Exhibition VI was devoted to the photographic work of Eduard J.
Steichen, taking place simultaneously with his one-man show of paintings
at the Glaenzer Galleries. Both exhibitions were brilliant successes artistic-
ally. This juxtaposition of mediums was of itself an interesting event, and
the fact that the selling-power of the photographs reached the brilliant
success of the paintings is another mile-stone passed upon the road to
appreciative recognition of photography by art-collectors and connoisseurs.

Exhibition VII consisted of the work of the Viennese Trifolium,
Messrs. Kiihn, Henneberg, and Watzek (deceased), and of one print by
the Germans, Theodore and Oscar Hofmeister, of Hamburg. Eighteen
pictures were hung; fifteen were large multiple gums (Kiihn, ten ; Henne-
berg, three; Watzek, one), and three platinotypes by Kiihn. Most of the
pictures shown in this collection were of unusual importance as prints, in
fact, were remarkable from every point of view.

During the five months that the seven exhibitions were open—they
were closed evenings, Sundays, and holidays—the galleries were visited by
15,000 people. In all 384 prints were hung on the walls; of these 249
were for sale and no fewer than 61 found purchasers at an average price of
$45.86 per print, equal to $2797.46 for the total sales. It is gratifying to note
that most of the pictures went to collectors who have begun to realize that
photographic prints have an individual value, and that there is generally a vast
difference in the quality of those made from one and the same negative.
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS.

One of the avowed objects of the Photo-Secession from its inception
has been the compelling of the recognition of photography as an additional
medium of individual expression ; an avowal which in a diminishing degree
has been the cause of some ridicule and the source of much amusement.
The exhibitions held during the past winter at the Little Galleries up to the
present, the culminating expression of the influence of the movement, have

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