International studio (43.1911)

Buffalo Photographic Exhibition


With Permission oj the Photo Secession
EVENING, BY CLARENCE WHITE


Permission oj the Photo Secession
THE BIRD CAGE, BY D. O. HILL

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OE
PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AT BUF-
FALO
BY WILLIAM D. MacCOLL
Ideally speaking there is perhaps a choice of
only two ways in organizing an exhibition of art.
One of these would be to throw open the doors to all
comers, thereby furnishing the whole catalogue of
things that would fit into the category of the ex-
hibition ; while the other way would be to exercise
the severest discipline beforehand, so as to secure
only an irreducible minimum of objects to represent
the strict yet full intentions of the organizers. In
the International Exhibition of Pictorial Photog-
raphy, which was held from November 3 to Decem-
ber 5 in the Albright Art Gallery, of Buffalo, under
the auspices of the Fine Arts Academy, of that city,
this second course was the one that had been pur-
sued. The result was a collection of six hundred
photographic prints of the highest order, yet still
sufficient in number and in scope to answer to all
the requirements of an exhibition whose aim was
“to sum up the development and progress of pho-
tography as a means of pictorial expression.” The
general opinion among photographers and their
critics seems to have been that this was “the finest

exhibition of pictorial photography ever held,” and
it is due to the fine sympathy and intelligent enter-
prise of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, under the


Witir_Permissio:ij_oj the Photo Secession
CADIZ BY ALVIN LANGDON COBURN

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