Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1908 (Heft 22))

Stieglitz from membership in the Club, and from all rights in
or to any of its property, be rescinded, and that Alfred Stieglitz
be reinstated as a life-member of The Camera Club, and in
and to all his rights, title to or interest in its property and
assets, to which he may be entitled as such life-member."
Yours truly,
(Signed) M. W. Tingley, Secretary.
Mr. Berg, President of the Club, now requested a conference with one
of Mr. Stieglitz’s friends. Disavowing any intention on the part of the
Board of Trustees to convey by its prior action an impression derogatory to
Mr. Stieglitz in any way, he was informed that Mr. Stieglitz, under the
conditions that had arisen, was quite ready to sever his connection with the
Camera Club as soon as the Trustees would place themselves on record, in
writing, specifying in detail the charges upon which their original action
was ostensibly based. After several conferences and some correspondence
between Mr. Berg and the gentleman whose advice he had sought, the
Trustees took formal action, as quoted, in the following letter addressed to
the gentleman above alluded to:
LETTER VII.

March 21st, 1908.
Dear Sir: In view of the impression which you state
has gone abroad on account of the utterances at various
interviews quoted in the papers, and as you further state,
“involving serious reflection on Mr. Stieglitz’s personal
character,” the Board, at a meeting held March 20th, passed
a resolution of which the following is a true copy :
“ Resolved, That the charges against Mr. Stieglitz were
not based upon any act involving any refiection upon Mr.
Stieglitz’s morality or personal character, but were based upon
the fact that both by deed and action he has for many years
worked against the interests of the Camera Club.
“And further, That he has continued the practice of
building up and increasing the membership in his own * Or-
ganization from within the Camera Club, creating a body
which has no interest in the Club except to use its rooms for
business purposes, and its facilities almost exclusively for the
benefit of the body alluded to; that this Organization, as
originated, enlarged, and continuously directed by him, has
been from the start, and is to-day more than ever, the center
of disaffection to the general interests of the Camera Club.
“That it is a cause for regret that any published state-
ment should have been construed into a reflection upon Mr.

*The Photo-Secession.—Editor.