Dragging a View Camera Through the Sands
See [Sand Dunes]
For want of a smaller one, I had the courage to drag a 6½×8½ Eastman view camera through the sand one late afternoon in September, to make my picture of the “Sand Dune.” I used a Struss lens stopped to F 11, a Standard Orthonon plate, an Iso three-times ray filter, and gave it as short an exposure as I could with a cap. I use a cap because I tell myself it is less mechanical and because I do not happen to possess a shutter.
I developed the plate with Activol and printed it on sepia Palladiotype to try to give it that quality of sunlight which I saw falling upon the sand, the waving dune grass, and the sea beyond.
Mildred Ruth Wilson.
THE HAMPTON SINGER
By Dorothy Abbott, New York City
THE ARCH OF JEWELS, NEW YORK CITY
By William A. Alcock, New York City
WILLOW VALLEY
By Charles K. Archer, Pittsburgh, Pa.
PRAYERS OF BUDDHA
By F. Bauer, San Francisco, Cal.
THE SWANS
By Jesse Tarbox Beals, New York City
ABOVE THE CLOUDS
By Clark Blickensderfer, Denver, Colo.
GRAMERCY PARK
By Mary F. Boyd, Chambersburg, Pa.
HILL TOP—WINTER
By George Butler, Worcester, Mass.
WEISSTHURM—ROTENBURG O. TAUBER
By A. D. Chaffee, New York City
CABLES
By Arthur D. Chapman, West Hoboken, N.J.
BOOKPLATE
By Alfred Cohn, Brooklyn, N.Y.
THE BUGLE CALL
By Dwight A. Davis, Worcester, Mass.
THE BRIDGE
By John Paul Edwards, Sacramento, California
MY FATHER
By Vernon E. Duroe, Brooklyn, N.Y.
MAIDS O' THE MIST
By Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Drew, Montclair, N.J.
AFTERNOON TEA
By Eleanor C. Erving, Albany, N.Y.
SUMMER PORTRAIT
By Laura Gilpin, Colorado Springs, Colo.
SUNLIGHT—TAOS
By Forman Hanna, Globe, Arizona
DICK'S STALL
By G. W. Harting, New York City
BETH-EL
By Edward Heim, New York City
THE TOILERS
By Eugene P. Henry, Brooklyn, N.Y.
ARCHES OF THE MUNICIPAL BUILDING
By Atoinette B. Hervey, New York City
MORNING—PLYMOUTH
By Lillian M. Hobart, Northborough, Mass.
LAST OF THE SQUARE RIGGERS
By G. Buell and Hebe Hollister, Corning, N.Y.
WAR VETERANS
By Millie Hoops, New York City
STILL LIFE
By D. S. Horne, Princeton, N.J.
THE SUNSHINE OF JOHNNIE'S SMILE
By Roberta Hostetler, Davenport, Iowa
SUN DRYING
By H. A. Hussey, Berkeley, Cal.
PORTRAIT
By Doris U. Jaeger, New York City
THE PIPES OF PAN
By Myers R. Jones, Brooklyn, N.Y.
IN AN ITALIAN VILLAGE
By H. A. Latimer, Boston, Mass.
CROW'S NEST RESTAURANT
By Sophie L. Lauffer, Brooklyn, N.Y.
THE QUARRY
By GEORGE P. LESTER, Bloomfield, N. J.
DETAIL OF CALIFORNIA BUILDING
By Florence Burton Livingston, Mohegan Lake, N.Y.
SUNBEAMS
By Ben J. Lubschez, New York City
ALONG THE CANAL
By William Elbert Macnaughton, Brooklyn, N.Y.
SPRING
By Holmes I. Mettee, Arlington, Md.
SYMPATHY
By Hervey W. Minns, Kenmore, Ohio
THE MEADOW
By Robert B. Montgomery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
THE RAILWAY STATION
By Henry Hoyt Moore, Brooklyn, N.Y.
CULTIVATING
By L. Pokras, Brooklyn, N. Y.
PORTRAIT—MISS F.
By Arthur Racicot, Quantico, Va.
TO THE UNKNOWN SHORE
By Lawrence C. Randall, Columbus, Ohio
THE EAST RIVER
By D. J. Ruzicka, New York City
CLOSING OF AN AUTUMN DAY
By J. G. Sarvent, Kansas City, Mo.
THE VANISHING ROAD
By Otto C. Shulte, San Francisco, Cal.
THE HOUR OF TWILIGHT
By William Gordon Shields, New York City
A SONG
By Guy Spencer, New York City
OPEN-AIR PULPIT, GRACE CHURCH
By Elizabeth G. Stoltz, Marion, Ohio
L'ENTRE'ACTE
By Mankichi Sugimoto, New York City
FARMYARD
By George P. Swain, East Orange, N.J.
CARLOTTA
By Lacy Van Wagenen, Orange, N.J.
MRS. PICKFORD
By Mabel Watson, Pasadena, California
THE LITTLE ART SHOP—WOODSTOCK
By Anthony J. Weis, New York City
THE DANCE
By Delight Weston, Blue Hill, Maine
SISTERS
By Clarence H. White, New York City
SAND DUNE
By Mildred Ruth Wilson, Flushing, Long Island
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The PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS of AMERICA
The objects of the Pictorial Photographers of America are to stimulate and encourage those engaged and interested in the Art of Photography; to enlist the aid of museums and public libraries in adding photographic prints to their departments; to stimulate public taste through exhibitions, lectures, and publications; to invite exhibits of foreign work; and generally to promote education in this Art so as to raise the standards of Photography in the United States of America.
Meetings of the Association are held in New York City on the first Monday of each month. During the winter of 1919-1920 the following lecturers addressed the Association at these meetings: Mr. Robert J. Cole, Art Reviewer, New York Evening Sun, on “Man and the Camera;” Mr. H. J. Potter, of the Eastman Kodak Company, on “Both Ways from F-8;” Mr. Albert Sterner, on “Before the Click of the Shutter;” Mr. Pirie MacDonald and Mr. E. B. Core, on “The Pictorial Side of Professional Photography;” and Mr. Walter G. Wolfe, on “The Use of the Soft Focus Lens.” Mr. Allen Eaton, Field Secretary of the American Federation of Arts; Mr. William M. Ivins, Curator of Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Dr. Frank Weitenkampf, of the New York Public Library; Prof. Charles H. Farnsworth, of Columbia University, and Walter L. Hervey, Ph.D., also made addresses.
Another feature of the meetings which added to their interest and usefulness was a monthly print competition. Prints were submitted by members from all parts of the United States, judged by a committee in advance of the meeting, and a selection of ten prints presented to the members for their consideration. From these they chose each month the two best prints.
The Pictorial Photographers of America this year for the first time arranged an exhibition of prints in Europe. Acting on the invitation of the Copenhagen Photographic Amateur Club to cooperate in celebrating its Twenty-fifth Anniversary, about 350 prints from leading pictorialists all over this country were assembled and forwarded in July to Copenhagen.
At home, in cooperation with the American Federation of Arts, the Pictorial Photographers of America exhibited at the following museums the hundred prints which are reproduced in “Pictorial Photography in America for 1920.” The John Herron Art Institute of Indianapolis, The Jackson Art Association of Michigan, The Boston Society of Arts and Crafts, The Mechanics Institute of Rochester, The Arnot Art Gallery of Elmira; and during May, at the University of Virginia.
During the past season the Association has cooperated with other organizations of a similar nature in planning for and establishing an Art Center in New York City. The plans for this have been successfully worked out, funds are already in hand for its accomplishment and buildings purchased for occupancy. This will provide a home for our Association, a splendid gallery for exhibitions, and thus make certain of immediate accomplishment plans for our future which have seemed impracticable up to the present time.
In publishing “Pictorial Photography in America for 1921” the Association has invited the cooperation of pictorialists whether or not members of the organization. We hope that it will interest in our work men and women, whether photographers or not, who are interested in the development of the Art of Photography. The Secretary will gladly give more detailed information about the work of the Association and its plans for the coming year to any who are interested.
JERRY D. DREW, Secretary.
National Arts Club, 119 East 19th Street, New York City.
