Camera Club of New York (Exhibition)

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Exist Dates

1922 December - 1923 January

Biographical or Historical Note

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Exhibition. Opened December 1922 and closed January 1923. Located in Section 3, Floor 1 in the Jesup Hall of North American Woods at the American Museum of Natural History. The Camera Club of New York featured 192 photographs created using different types of printing processes.

Summary

The Camera Club of New York featured 192 photographs created using different types of printing processes. The exhibition included portraits of Carl Akeley and Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Photographic processes featured in the exhibition included bromide, the Artone, carbon, gum, gum arabic, oil, bromoil, platinum, gum palladium, chloride, Kerotype transfer and bromide transfer. Different apparatus and instruments were represented, including "the Naturalist Graflex, designed especially for photographing mammals and birds in the wild state where long focus or telephoto lenses are required (1, 1922, p. 95-96)."

This is a condensed summary of the exhibition. For additional information, see Sources and/or Related Resources.

Sources

    (1) American Museum of Natural History, "Special Exhibits: Camera Club Exhibit," Natural History, January/February 1923): 95-96.

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temporary exhibition
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New YorkExternal link
AMNH: Section 3, Floor 4.

Related Corporate, Personal, and Family Names

Akeley, Carl Ethan 1864-1926
Featured as a subject in a photograph (1, 1922, p. 95)
American Museum of Natural History. Jesup Hall of North American Woods.
Location of the exhibition, referred to as "hall of woods and forestry" in documentation (1, 1922, p. 95)
Camera Club of New YorkExternal link
Institutional partner (1, 1922, p. 95)
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur 1879-1962
Featured as a subject in a photograph (1, 1922, p. 95)

Related Resources

American Museum of Natural History. Annual Reports. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1922.
Pages 27, 36
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American Museum of Natural History Special Collections vertical files 
Repository: AMNH Special Collections [Natural History article]
Natural history.
"Special Exhibits: Camera Club Exhibit." (January/February 1923): 95-96.

Written by: Clare O'Dowd
Last modified: 2018 October 5


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