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THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. Vol. XV. No. 659.—April 21, 1871. CONTENTS. PAGE Photographs at the International Exhibition 181 The Wet Process without Dark Room or Tent 182 Obituary—T. R. Williams 183 The “ Edinburgh Review ” on Photography 184 A Few Hints Worth Knowing. By W. T. Bovey 185 A New Method of Working Wet Plates without Tent or Dark Room. By B. J. Edwards 186 On the Production of Small Portrait Negatives Suitable for Enlarging. By Edward W. Foxlee 187 PAG® The Autotype Process. By Tom Taylor 188 German Correspondence 189 Correspondence.—Children in the Studio—Photographs at the International Exhibition—Keeping Qualities of Dry Plates 189 Proceedings of Societies.—Manchester Photographic Society— South London Photographic Society 191 Talk in the Studio 191 To Correspondents 192 PHOTOGRAPHS AT THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. Ii will gratify our readers generally to learn that, all diffi culties and doubts to the contrary notwithstanding, the display of photography at the forthcoming International Exhibition promises to be fairly representative and decidedly satisfactory. During a recent visit to the Exhibition in its present embryotic and chaotic state, we were very agreeably ! surprised to find the completeness in every respect of the photographic department. The various portions of the Exhibition buildings are, as many readers know, scattered about the grounds of the Horticultural Gardens; photo graphy, however, in conjunction with water-colour drawings, engravings, and other fine art products, finds a place in the handsome gallery which runs round the Albert Hall. Although the position necessarily involves the ascent of i many steps, no more favourable or attractive locality could possibly have been chosen for light, space, and con- I venience; and no place more favourable for publicity, as ! the gallery in question must inevitably be visited by almost every body, not merely for the purpose of inspecting its tine art contents, but as presenting the finest view of the very noble hall, which far surpasses in grandness of pro portions, symmetry, and general harmony of effect, the majority of the descriptions which we have met with. Before referring further to the photographs, it may be well to advert to a subject the discussion of which has occupied some portion of our columns during the last few weeks, and in relation to which we are asked in the present number for specific explanations with which we are familiar. The Committee appointed to make a selection of the worthiest examples of photography to fill the space avail- able, having completed their work, at once notified photo graphers that they might withdraw the contributions not found worthy, or for which there was insufficient space. The inevitable disappointment followed: similar dis appointment always has followed, and probably always will follow, on similar occasions. Many contributors felt dis appointed that all their pictures were not retained, and others discovered that the rejected contributions were the Very pictures which themselves and their friends had most highly admired. The care and capacity, or the motives, of the Committee in such cases are at once suspected: their judgment is at fault, or some sinister motive is at work. This kind of dissatisfaction is probably very natural, it is certainly very common. We know something personally of the thankless character of juridical labours in exhibitions of this kind: hard and anxious labours are rewarded at times by hard and virulent abuse, generally by distrust, and rarely or ever by gratitude. In this case, however, the rumours of dissatisfaction assumed a more specific form, and it was distinctly suggested that one of the Committee who had attained a very high position in the most artistic branch of photography had suppressed the works most likely to compete with his own productions. All these rumours prove, on a little examination, to be utterly groundless. The letter of Mr. Peter Le Neve Foster in our present issue satisfactorily explains and justifies the general position of the Committee; but we may add a few further comments, the result of personal in vestigation and enquiry, in order to show that the principles which directed the selections of the Committee most conduce to the interests of photography and photographers, that their work is thoroughly well done, and that rumours of personal motives are altogether without foundation. To dispose of the latter point first, it is simply necessary to state that the Committee do not exhibit at all. That the interest of the Exhibition would have been greatly enhanced by the display of some of Dr. Diamond’s photo graphs, unsurpassed in their special branches, and by some of Col. Stuart Woriley's grand sea and cloud pictures and large portrait studies, there cannot be a doubt; but there cannot be less doubt that, in refraining from exhibiting, these gentlemen take the highest and most unchallengeable position, and become, like Csar's wife, not only pure, but beyond suspicion. In doing justice to photography and photographers, the Committee had three considerations in view : they had to secure excellence, novelty, and a fair distribution of space ; and their general aim would not have been secured by the sacrifice of any one of these considerations. We believe that, as a rule, little difficulty was experienced in relation to the first. Photographers generally sent their best work, and much good work was contributed. Too often, however, the element of novelty seemed to have been altogether dis regarded. In many cases the pictures sent in had been displayed at every exhibition held for a year or two past; many had been published, advertised, and sold largely; some had been in show-cases, or used as advertisements. The justification offered by the contributors of such pictures we know will be, that novelty was not made a condition of acceptance, and that if it had been, the long unfavourable season would have rendered novelty absolutely unattainable. It should be remembered, however, that whilst the absolute novelty which will be demanded in the subsequent annual exhibitions of this kind was not made an imperative con dition here, yet novelty is at all exhibitions a desirable, if not an inexorable condition, and that of two pictures equally excellent, that which was new, or, if not new, that which had been least frequently exhibited, would be selected. That the importance of sending new pictures has not been appreciated by many photographers is tolerably certain; but after a very little reflection it will be clearly seen that the exhibition of old and familiar pictures must completely defeat the end of the contributors themselves. Visitors to
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