Since 1884, The New York Camera Club has been a forum for exploring photography. Although the Club was created by 'male' photography enthusiasts who sought refuge from the mass media popularization of the 1880s, he received his first female member, Miss Elizabeth A. Slade, in 1887, just four years after her birth, and then came to accepting new ideas and new approaches to the media.
Over the years, the Club helped launch a revolutionary new approach to photography and fostered many photographers who later became giants in this field. Alfred Stieglitz uses the Club as a forum and a place to convince a skeptical public that photography is a worthy art compared to painting. Then, as the media matures, Club again becomes the place where a new "direct photography" approach will emerge. Paul Strand, who joined the Camera Club at the age of 17, was introduced to a camera in the Club which has a right-angle viewfinder, allowing someone to take pictures of the unconscious. Strand uses this camera to produce some of his most impressive images on the streets of New York, including Blind Woman and Wall Street.
The Camera Club is also an important place to hear about new advances in photography. For example, X-Ray photography was shown there in 1898 and the LumiÃÆ'¨re Autochrome process, an early form of color photography, in 1909. In 1930 Willard D Morgan first introduced a new Leica camera to Club members. Among the important lectures held at the Club were Aero Photography by Edward Steichen in 1921 and The Life and Work of Eugène Atget by Berenice Abbott in 1931. Later, Richard Avedon gave a lecture on Photography fashion in 1949.
Today, the Camera Club continues to function as an important resource for photography. The club offers classes in basic cameras and darkroom skills, which help nurture and create new pioneers of photography and workspaces for established and emerging photographers. Lectures and exhibitions are an important part of the club's program. Since 1999, important photographers such as Eugene Richards, Nigel Parry, Duane Michals, Oliver Weber, Andres Serrano, Eddie Adams and Henry Horenstein have been exhibiting and giving lectures at the club.
The New York Camera Club is located at 126 Baxter Street, New York, NY 10013.
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References
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External links
- Official website
- Wingfield, Valerie. Record New York Club Club, 1889-1983 . The New York Public Library, July 1993.
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