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Amateur Camera Clubs: On his return to New York Stieglitz found that while there were many Camera clubs and photographic societies, none of them seemed to have the passionate belief in the art of photography that was rapidly spreading throughout Europe. He was elected a director of the Society of Amateur Photographers of New York, became editor of The American Amateur Photographer, and through his photographs and writings, through his publication of others' work, through lectures and demonstrations, he showed Americans aesthetic potentials of photography which they had not yet realized.
Don't overlook or underestimate these clubs, because they provide you with a ready-made list of flower fans. There are more of them and they are more avid than you may realize. Did you know, for instance, that very many flowers have Fan clubs of amateur and professional gardeners who are devoted to the cultivation and improvement of the strain? Members of these clubs often are collectors of slides of their favorite flowers.
Many of these periodicals were the official organs of amateur Camera clubs, which grew in number at a remarkable rate. In 1893 the American Annual of Photography published an international list of these societies, which numbered 500—more than half of them in Great Britain and its colonies. |
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