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564 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. [August 7, 1891. an ability to be your own critic. There is an active men tal stimulant in association. You try new things ; you are no longer content with the simple view, but lantern slides, enlargements, transparencies, and new processes invite you into new fields, simply because you are in the atmosphere of these things. Now broaden your atmo sphere from your own local camera club to the wide pers pective of the Conference. You have simply left home and entered the world, with its variety, its unbounded interests, its grander energies. The best in your own home club will no longer furnish your standard of excel lence. Here you will learn that there are master minds, as well as master hands, given up to the work of your chosen craft, and producing work that you would not dream of, except you meet it here. This skill, this art, could never be gathered together except in a national organisation like the Conference. What you had secured in your own club was a good home training ; here you get a liberal education. This personal contact has a more powerful influence in expanding the mind and diverting it into new channels than can be realised without a personal experience. Take my own case, for instance. Why do I feel the necessity of travelling half across the continent at a considerable cost of time, money, and fatigue, to attend a great medical gathering? Simply because I feel that I need it. I know from experience that it is one form of education in the great school of actual life. By this personal contact and mental friction between men in the same line of work, the little personal conceits, the mental eddies wherein the mind gets involved in a hopeless round, become straightened out. You lose your mental angles, and reach a larger and rounder intellectual life. If you believe you know a great deal about photography, come to the con ference and find someone that knows more than you do. If you are conceited about the qualities of your picture, come to the Conference, and you will find in all probability a man who can make a better one. In this way you will not stay at home and be content, but you will go home resolved to do better. So numerous and diverse are the applications of photo graphy to science, art, manufacturing, and domestic life, and so rapidly is the field being widened in these directions, that it would be difficult to form a correct idea of how vast the field of heliographic science and practice really is, except as we are able to bring this multitudinous art within the fold of the Conference. We are not an association of amateurs simply because we are here not in the interests of commerce. The debt of photography to the amateur calls for no expression from me before such an audience. Some of us are here in the interests of art in its best and widest sense ; an art that always holds in the grasp of the vision the beautiful, the true, and the infinite harmonies of nature existing about us. Some of us feel this as an inspiration, with something of that desire that always comes to the aesthetic soul, to reach out and grasp with spiritual hands, and make all their own, something of that art which is eternal. We have also among us the man of science, who finds that photography has made a pathway before him lit by sunshine. In its subtle chemistry, its delicate and exact ing manipulations and ever widening possibilities, he is drawn onward, and finds here ample labour and full reward for the best years of his manhood. The Conference may extend its influence beyond its own walls, and penetrate into the home-life of every club affiliated with it. The American lantern-slide interchange has done more to create an interest and establish a high standard of excellence among photographic clubs than any other agency that ever existed among us. Yet the number of clubs composing the interchange is necessarily limited. I do not see how it could be usefully extended beyond its present limit. If too many nights are given up to other clubs’ work, your club might easily fall off on its trial nights and produce bad work from the need of individual competition. No slide that is worth submitting to the committee ought ever to find its way there without having been previously shown up in the club-room on regular trial nights. In this way you compare your work with each other, as well as having the best work of other clubs as a better and more exacting standard of comparison. This is one reason why I believe that lantern-slide inter change ought to be comparatively limited. Now I suggest that the Conference be divided into circuits of about ten clubs, by any way that may appear practical, each circuit exchanging slides for one year, when new circuits are formed at each annual conference. In this way all the clubs composing the conference will have an opportunity to become familiar with the work of the conference. Clubs already in the existing interchange could, if they saw fit, keep out of the conference interchange, as the number of clubs already in the conference furnish excellent material for two, if not three, additional interchanges. I would suggest that this matter be referred to a committee of the present Conference, so that the subject take practical form the coming winter. An amateur, like a professional, is considerably exposed to the danger of working in a groove. He fancies that he cannot work but one plate with but one developer, or use but one printing medium. Now, if he is really to enjoy his art, he must be many-sided, and, while nothing can be said against liking the material one uses to the best advantage, yet one must have the stimulus of new things in order to broaden in a technical as well as an artistic sense. To that end, I would suggest that the members and clubs in the Conference institute a system of exchange of prints and finished pictures. In this way clubs will add to the adornment of their walls, and individual members enrich their collection. In this method of exchange a higher standard of criticism will be formed. New printing mediums and methods will be tried and become known. I venture the suggestion that this also be referred to a committee to put in working form. These are but a few of the factors that will draw the clubs and members composing the conference into firmer and closer alliance. We will surely find that we will work with a broader faith in the art possibilities of photography, and reach a more certain attainment of the possibilities in the union of our common interests. Many—but, on the whole, friendly—criticisms have been made upon our constitution. It has been asserted that we are an exclusive body, by confining the governing power to the clubs instead of the individual amateur. But while I, for one, will disclaim any desire or attempt to create a class, or to favour one amateur to the injury of another, I will call the attention of our critics to the fact that the photographic clubs alone rendered such a body as this possible. Our constitution is a matter of experiment, as must ever be the case with new organisations in new and untried fields, and will require changes and modifica tions to meet the demands of growth and experience. I assure our friends that they will find members of the Con-
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