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Organized The London Salon: In protest Stieglitz, Clarence H. hite, Coburn, and Eugene resigned from the Linked ng, together with Heinrich Kiihn and Baron Adolf de :yer. The Photographic Salon at once lost the effectiveness it had built up over the past fifteen years. Its last exhibition was held in 1909. Some of the more conservative members of the now-defunct Linked Ring organized The London Salon of Photography to replace it.
The proposal was accepted, and on 1 vember 5 "The Little Galleries of the Photo-Secessi opened to the public, with a show of photographs by members. This inaugural show was followed by a sei of exhibitions presenting work by leading pictorial p] tographers of Europe and America.The Photo-Secession dominated the 1908 Pho graphic Salon of the Linked Ring in London. Three of i Selecting Committee — Steichen, Coburn, and Eugene were Photo-Secessionists. On opening day photograph were shocked that more than one half of the photograp the walls were by Americans. So upset were those lose work had been rejected that the magazine The nateur Photographer organized a "Salon des Refuses" its editorial office.
Stieglitz organized many small exhibitions at the Club,but the nearest approach to his ideal American Salon wa held in 1898 by the Philadelphia Photographic Societ] in the Pennsylvania Academy of Art. He was one of thi judges, together with the eminent painter William Ma ritt Chase. The Philadelphia Salon became a yearly & ture and brought to light new talent. Critics had higl praise for the simple, informal portraits of women and children by Gertrude Kasebier. She had taken up pho tography at middle age, while an art student in Paris and had opened a professional portrait studio in Ne« York in 1896. |
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