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- Ausgabe No. 1270, January 5, 1883 1
- Ausgabe No. 1271, January 12, 1883 17
- Ausgabe No. 1272, January 19, 1883 33
- Ausgabe No. 1273, January 26, 1883 49
- Ausgabe No. 1274, February 2, 1883 65
- Ausgabe No. 1275, February 9, 1883 81
- Ausgabe No. 1276, February 16, 1883 97
- Ausgabe No. 1277, February 23, 1883 113
- Ausgabe No. 1278, March 2, 1883 129
- Ausgabe No. 1279, March 9, 1883 145
- Ausgabe No. 1280, March 16, 1883 161
- Ausgabe No. 1281, March 22, 1883 177
- Ausgabe No. 1282, March 30, 1883 193
- Ausgabe No. 1283, April 6, 1883 209
- Ausgabe No. 1284, April 13, 1883 225
- Ausgabe No. 1285, April 20, 1883 241
- Ausgabe No. 1286, April 27, 1883 257
- Ausgabe No. 1287, May 4, 1883 273
- Ausgabe No. 1288, May 11, 1883 289
- Ausgabe No. 1289, May 18, 1883 305
- Ausgabe No. 1290, May 25, 1883 321
- Ausgabe No. 1291, June 1, 1883 337
- Ausgabe No. 1292, June 8, 1883 353
- Ausgabe No. 1293, June 15, 1883 369
- Ausgabe No. 1294, June 22, 1883 385
- Ausgabe No. 1295, June 29, 1883 401
- Ausgabe No. 1296, July 6, 1883 417
- Ausgabe No. 1297, July 13, 1883 433
- Ausgabe No. 1298, July 20, 1883 449
- Ausgabe No. 1299, July 27, 1883 465
- Ausgabe No. 1300, August 3, 1883 481
- Ausgabe No. 1301, August 10, 1883 497
- Ausgabe No. 1302, August 17, 1883 513
- Ausgabe No. 1303, August 24, 1883 529
- Ausgabe No. 1304, August 31, 1883 545
- Ausgabe No. 1305, September 7, 1883 561
- Ausgabe No. 1306, September 14, 1883 577
- Ausgabe No. 1307, September 21, 1883 593
- Ausgabe No. 1308, September 28, 1883 609
- Ausgabe No. 1309, October 5, 1883 625
- Ausgabe No. 1310, October 12, 1883 641
- Ausgabe No. 1311, October 19, 1883 657
- Ausgabe No. 1312, October 26, 1883 673
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- Ausgabe No. 1316, November 23, 1883 737
- Ausgabe No. 1317, November 30, 1883 753
- Ausgabe No. 1318, December 7, 1883 769
- Ausgabe No. 1319, December 14, 1883 785
- Ausgabe No. 1320, December 21, 1883 801
- Ausgabe No. 1321, December 28, 1883 817
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654 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. [OcTOBER 12, 1883. OPERATORS’ SPECIMENS. Sib,— "Retoucher" should send advertiser a bill (aay 10s. 6d.) for the specimens retained, and in case the money or specimens were not forthcoming in two days, sue him in the County Court for the amount. Such shabby conduct should be put a stop to.—Yours, &c., Employee. Proceedings of Sucieties. South London Photographic Society. The first ordinary monthly meeting of the session was held at the House of the Society of Arts, John Street, Adelphi, W.C., on Thursday evening, the 4th inst., the Rev. F. F. Statham, M.A., President, in the chair. The minutes of the last ordinary meeting in June were read and confirmed, and allusion was made to a successful out-door meeting held at the “Bull and Bush,” Hampstead, on Friday, the 28th of July, on which occasion several members sat down to tea ; two photographs were also taken of those present by Mr. P. Mawdsley. The Chairman then presented the Society’s diploma to Mr. E. Dunmore, for his picture, “Cattle,” sent in for competi tion at the May meeting, and congratulated that gentleman on his repeated successes. He was very glad to see that the members were beginning to take up the matters of competition with more enthusiasm, as was shown by the increased number of examples sent in for competition during the holiday months since they last met. Mr. P. Mawdsley was also awarded a diploma for his picture “ An Open View with Clouds.” The names were announced of the members who had been successful in the artistic competitions for June, July, August, and September, as follows:—June, “ A country road with a finger-post,” Mr. John Nesbit; July, “Fisher-folk,” Mr. Matthew Whiting; August, “ A Good Place for a Rest,” Mr. E, Dunmore; “Moving Figures,” Messrs. Cobb and Son ; Septem ber, “ A River View,” Mr. F. A. Bridge ; and “The Milkmaid,” Mr. John Nesbit. The subjects for the October competition were then ballotted for, the result being—Landscape, “ Gnarled Oaks ; ” and Figure, “ Cat and Kittens.” The Chairman announced that their next meeting, on the 1st of November, would be the annual technical meeting, and the committee were anxious to make it as great a success as possible by getting promises of new apparatus, &c., to be dis played on that occasion; also demonstrations of new processes or formula, or anything which might prove interesting, and he called upon the members individually to aid in making the meeting a success. The proceedings on this occasion would commence at 7.30 p.m., instead of at 8. Mr. J. Traill Taylob, of New York, then read a paper entitled, “ Photographic matters connected with America ” (see page 646), and commenced by disclaiming, on the part of American photographers, any prejudices of an international character, and remarked that if Americans did, as a rule, entertain large ideas of their country, they might be pardoned from the fact of the immensity of the country, causing them insensibly to form colossal ideas. He touched upon the methods and dimensions of enlarging in America, as compared with the same in England ; spoke of the artistic and literary culture to be met with there, and referred to the fact of Germany and France providing artists for America to a much greater degree than Great Britain. With regard to landscape enlargements, Mr. Taylor readily admitted the supremacy of England; he also spoke- of the rela tive merits and de-merits of climate in the two countries, and of the apparatus manufactured in each. Referring to the American studios, he described the gorgeous way in which some of those in the chief cities were fitted up, and read an extract from the Photographic Times, descriptive of the magnificent studio of Mr. Richard Walzl, in Baltimore. In alluding to mechanical printing processes, Mr. Taylor passed round some American specimens for inspection ; he remarked that the Woodbury process had been somewhat unfortunate in the States, and, in connection with transparencies, referred to the beautiful work produced by Mr. John Carbutt. After a brief allusion to gelatine plates, Mr. Taylor concluded by expressing his willingness to reply to any questions referring to American photographic matters which might be put to him. A paper containing the following questions was then handed up to Mr. TaylorWhat is the state of photographic journalism in America? Which journal is the best ? Is there a prospect of a photographic weekly ? What about the independence of journalism ? How about Carey Lea ? In replying, Mr. Taylob said that when such a question as the best journal was propounded, the querist either forgot that one of them was edited by an old member of their own South London Society, or else what he meant was, “ Which journal, next to the Photographic Times, is best ? ” He (Mr. Taylor) would give a general reply to these questions. In addition to the Times there was a second journal, Anthony’s Bulletin, published in New York. It was, in a large degree, the com mercial organ of the well-known stock house whose property it was. Its technical literature consisted for the most part of selections from the English journals. It was edited by Mr. Henry Anthony, a gentleman getting on in years, but who enjoys the respect and esteem of all who know him. The Philadelphia Photographer at one time held a good position in America; it was still in existence, but he was unable to speak concerning its merits, and he did not know whether it had an editor at present, the former one, Mr. E. L. Wilson, having gone in for the more lucrative employment of lecturing along with magic lantern; this gentleman, however, now belongs to the staff of the Photo graphic Times. A quarterly journal, Photographic Bays of Light, emanates from the establishment of Mr. Walzl, of Balti more, himself a man of considerable literary ability, and well up in photography. The St. Louis Practical Photographer was dis continued on the death of Mr. J. H. Fitzgibbon, but his widow had started another journal with a nearly similar name. Some of the English journalists whom Mr. Taylor saw present had com plained that their articles frequently appeared in this journal without acknowledgment of the source whence they emanated. The Eye is a weekly Chicago newspaper, one edition of which devotes special attention to photographic matters. Mr. Gentil, the photographic editor, is a man of culture and literary ability, and a practical, if not a professional, photographer. Concerning the Times, Mr. Taylor said that four years ago it was a very small periodical indeed, appearing as an appendage to the Phila delphia Photographer, and from the specimen copy he handed round they would be able to judge to what a stage it had now advanced. With respect to Mr. Carey Lea, Mr. Taylor regretted his inability to reply to the question put. Mr. Lea had kept aloof for some years from all public utterances in photography; but Mr. Taylor expressed a hope that he would soon startle the world with some new outcome of his great talents and capacity for original research. With regard to amateur photo graphy, Mr. Taylor further said that they were a little behind in America, although in New York amateurs are being created very rapidly in connection with the advent of gelatine, and are of a somewhat superior class as regards intelligence. There is a purely Amateur Photographic Society recently established in Chicago, and another in Brooklyn ; in the latter of which he had the pleasure of knowing some of the members, men who could produce beautiful work. Mr. W. BROOKS said he had had letters from several gentle men in America who told him they succeeded very well with the collodio-bromide process. Mr. Taylor remarked that Mr. Newton, President of the American Institute, had bestowed considerable attention upon the collodio-bromide process; but he had discarded it in favour of gelatine, though he was ashamed to say that gentleman pur chased his plates instead of making them. ~Mr. A. L. Henderson wished to ask Mr. Taylor what position club photography held in America, and whether it was true that some of the club photographers practised the art on Sunday; also whether it was the humidity of the atmosphere which prevented the carbon process being practised there. He had been told that the reason the Woodbury type was not practised in America was on account of the dampness of the climate. Mr. Taylor said he had conversed with Mr. Woodbury on this subject only yesterday, and that gentleman had said that he was now prepared with a gelatine which would obviate all the difficulties experienced in America in connection with his process. He had grappled the matter successfully, and when the Stanno- type process was ushered in, it would be a success. About the club business, when he (Mr. Taylor) first went to America five years ago, it was in full swing everywhere on Sundays as well as week days, rather more so perhaps in the former. He thought, with regard to the Sunday trade generally, that though there were some photographers who did not practise it, still there were a great many who did.
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