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...Camera Club is forming plans for a Harvard-Yale camera exhibition, which will take the form of a contest, a trophy to be awarded to the college exhibiting the best set of photographs. The date for the contest, which will be the first of its kind among college camera clubs, has been set for the first week after the Easter vacation. A meeting of the Camera Club Executive Committee will soon be held for the purpose of forming definite plans and arranging all details. A sufficient number of men from both Yale and Harvard have signified their intention of entering...
Professor Norton entertained the Camera Club at his house last night with a discourse on the value to the photographer of studying the great painters. He said that while photography can never equal the painter's imaginatively created results, his idealisations and poetic fancies, it can portray what has permanent charm, and is a valuable resource for personal development and a rich means of culture...
...meeting of the Camera Club last night, Mr. Chester A. Stiles spoke on the manufacture of velox paper. A set of lantern slides was shown illustrating the principles by which pictures should be selected for exhibition. Professor Norton's talk, which was to have been given last night, was postponed until next Wednesday. Seventy-six pictures have already been entered for the coming exhibition, which will probably be more extensive than that of last year. Awards at the exhibition will be made only to members of the club, but other members of the University may enter pictures for exhibition...
...Denman Ross '75, in his lecture last night before the Camera Club, spoke on "How design may enter into Photography." He said that one who aspires to become an artist in photography should consider three things: The light and shadows falling upon the picture; the rhythmic relationship existing between its parts; and the central point of balance; by observing these principles, harmony and symmetry will be introduced into the design, and the picture will be made consistent with nature...
...Camera Club exhibit this year consists of a series of photographic studies by Mr. H. P. Robinson, of England, illustrating the progress of the artistic side of photography. The photographs are notable for the excellent choice and arrangement of subjects and for the skill with which they are executed. Of the eighteen prints, the best two are interior pictures entitled "Dawn and sunset" and "When the Day's Work is Done." The latter is the more effective of these two pictures of peasant life on account of the simplicity of the subject and the valuations of the lights and shadows...