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

in varying degrees changed this ridicule to silence and the amusement to
conviction, and at the end of this successful but arduous season, it comes as
a peculiarly gratifying climax to our endeavors that the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, one of the foremost and most influential of the
American art institutions, has, unasked, requested us to select and hang an
exhibition of photographs on its walls.

Notwithstanding the unexpectedness of the invitation and the short
time given to prepare, on April thirtieth, “An Exhibition of Photographs
arranged by the Photo-Secession ” was opened at the Academy in Philadel-
phia, Messrs. Joseph T. Keiley, Eduard J. Steichen, and Alfred Stieglitz
having personally done the hanging of the one hundred and thirty-two prints
shown. The foreword of the catalogue read as follows : “The pictures in
this exhibition have, with very few exceptions, been chosen from those
which were hung in a series of exhibitions at the Photo-Secession Galleries
in New York, during the present season. They summarize in a broad way
the trend of that internationai movement of which the Photo-Secession is
the organized American exponent, a protest against the conventional con-
ception of what constitutes Pictorial Photography.”

The photographs were hung in three rooms. The following photog-
raphers were represented: C. Yarnall Abbott, Philadelphia; J. Craig
Annan, Glasgow, Scotland; Mrs. Jeanne E. Bennett, Washington, D. C.;
Miss Alice Boughton, New York; Mrs. Annie W. Brigman, Oakland,
California; John G. Bullock, Philadelphia; Sydney Carter, Toronto,
Canada; Alvin Langdon Coburn, New York; Robert Demachy, Paris,
France; William B. Dyer, Chicago; J. Mitchell Elliot, Philadelphia;
Frederick H. Evans, London, England; Herbert G. French, Cincinnati;
Hugo Henneberg, Vienna, Austria ; David Octavius Hill, R.S.A., deceased ;
Theodore and Oscar Hofmeister, Hamburg, Germany; Mrs. Gertrude
Kasebier, New York; Joseph T. Keiley, Brooklyn; Heinrich Kiihn,
Innsbruck, Austria; Miss Celine Laguarde, Paris, France ; Rene Le Begne,
Paris, France ; Miss Helen Lohman, New York ; Charles H. MacDowell,
Chicago ; Wiiliam J. Mullins, Franklin, Pennsylvania ; Frederick H. Pratt,
Worcester, Massachusetts ; C. Puyo, Paris, France; Mrs. Sarah C. Sears,
Boston ; George H. Seeley, Stockbridge, Massachusetts; Mrs. Mary R.
Stanbery, Zanesville, Ohio ; Eduard J. Steichen, New York ; Alfred
Stieglitz, New York ; Edmund Stirling, Philadelphia; Hans Watzek,
deceased ; Clarence H. White, Newark, Ohio ; and S. L. Willard, Chicago.

Taken collectively, as well as for the individual merit of practically
every print shown, this exhibition was, without doubt, the high-water mark
of photographic exhibitions held either in this country or abroad.

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