Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1907 (Heft 19))

PHOTO-SECESSION NOTES.

IT is with pleasure that we are enabled to announce that the Little
Galleries of the Photo-Secession have been leased for another year.
The third series of exhibitions will open early in November, and the
first exhibition of the season will be devoted, as heretofore, to the
work of the Photo-Secessionists, many of whom are already busy pre-
paring their contributions. The season now drawing to a close—the Coburn
exhibition being the last of the second series—has been fully as interesting
as the first. The Photo-Secession and its aims and labors are gradually
being understood by more than a small circle of people and photography as
a medium of expression is finally coming into its own. The third season
promises bravely inasmuch as the Director of the Photo-Secession is to
spend the summer abroad and will have an opportunity of securing much
which will be of interest to the ever-increasing attendance at the Galleries.
The exhibition devoted to the work of Miss Alice Boughton, Messrs.
Wm. B. Dyer and C. Yarnall Abbott lasted three weeks. It fully main-
tained the spirit of the Secession. The three rooms were severally
devoted to the work of one of the photographers, each exhibitor being
represented by twenty-three prints. It was interesting to note how, although
working in some respects along similar lines, the individuality of each of
these photographers stood out in bold relief when thus placed in juxtaposi-
tion. Unfortunately, the inclement weather, continuing for months, affected
the attendance of this particular exhibition more than any other.
On March tenth Mr. Alvin Langdon Coburn’s one-man show was
opened. Mr. Coburn had come from London especially for this exhibition
and the reception his pictures found in New York was disappointing neither
to him nor to the Photo-Secession. Coburn has certainly lived up to —
possibly gone ahead of—his early promise. He is maturing fast. Tech-
nically and artistically he has grown amazingly during the past two years and
it is small wonder that this exhibition should have attracted an attention
second to none so far held at the Little Galleries, nor for that matter that it
should have awakened the photographic interest of many other people who
had heard about Coburn via Bernard Shaw. Coburn has enjoyed excep-
tional advantages, and it is to his credit that he has grasped most of them.
Not least of these has been his mother. A future number of Camera
Work will deal more fully with the newer work of Mr. Coburn who, in
May, returns to London where he naturally finds a more sympathetic
atmosphere than in commercial and hustling New York.

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