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author: American Museum of Natural History

Camera Club of New York (Exhibition)
birth: 1922 December
death: 1923 January
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.