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SECOND PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE FINE ARTS EXHIBITION OPENS MAY 20
The second exhibition of Photography in the Fine Arts will open at the
Metropolitan Museum on Friday, May 20, to run through September 4, featuring 176
contemporary photographs (49 in color) taken by 129 photographers. This year's
exhibition will be shown in three of the large special exhibition galleries at the
Museum.
Final selections from among more than 800 color and monochrome prints, submitted
through many photographic, professional, amateur and publishing organizations, were
made for this display by a jury of 12 distinguished representatives from the field
of the fine arts. Ivan Dmitri, well-known photographer, served as the organizing
director of the project.
The Saturday Review, sponsor of the project, is devoting a major portion of its
May 28th issue to a review of Photography in the Fine Arts II and its significance in
the field of fine arts. This coverage is being augmented by other national publications.
The Professional Photographers of America, the American Society of Magazine
Photographers, and the Photographic Society of America (PSA) collaborated in an
extensive search through publications, photographic files and libraries to locate
material for submission to the screening and final juries. They were aided by many of
America's leading museums, art schools and camera clubs. Also assisting in the project
were publications such as Life, Look and Popular Photography; photographic agencies
such as Magnum, Pix and Black Star; advertising agencies; and newspapers from one end
of the country to the other.
Thousands of entries were filtered by these groups, with the exception of those
photographs collected by the Photographic Society of America. The latter were first
judged by a special screening panel headed by Norris Harkness, Hon. PSA and past-
president PSA. Other members of this panel were: Mildred Baker, Associate Director,
Newark Museum; Eliot Elisofon, Life Magazine photographer; Adolf Fassbender,
honorary dean of both the Photographic Society of America and the Professional
Photographers of America; Kathryn E. Gamble, Director, Montclair Museum; Gillett
Griffin, Curator of Graphic Arts, Princeton University Library; Una E. Johnson,
Curator of Prints and Drawings, The Brooklyn Museum; Harris K. Prior, Director,
American Federation of Arts, New York; Albert Reese, Kennedy Galleries, New York;
and Carl J. Weinhardt, Jr., Associate Curator of Prints, the Metropolitan Museum.
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Then, a jury of 12, Photography in the Fine Arts' National Advisory Committee, selected the photographs to be included in the exhibition. Judging was done on a written point-score basis, and individual jurors did not know which photographs were being selected by the others. The members of this jury were: James J. Rorimer,
Director, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chairman; Frank Baker, Senior Art Director,
McCann-Erickson, New York; Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, Director, The Baltimore Museum of
Art; Leslie Cheek, Jr., Director, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Hugh Edwards,
Curator of Photography, The Art Institute of Chicago; Alexander Eliot, art critic,
Time Magazine; Emily Genauer, art critic, New York Herald Tribune; Bartlett H. Hayes,
Jr., Director, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts; Bryan Holme,
Director, Studio Books - Viking Press, New York; Sam Hunter, Acting Director, The
Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Una E. Johnson, Curator of Prints and Drawings, The
Brooklyn Museum; A. Hyatt Mayor, Curator of Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Mr. Mayor, commenting upon Photography in the Fine Arts II, said: "It is pointless to ask if photography belongs to the fine arts for it was born there ...
Fox-Talbot hit upon the negative-positive process because he was so dissatisfied with his attempts to draw Italian scenery; and Daguerre, the inventor of the other process, financed his experiments out of his profits from painting translucent scenery for a circular showroom called the Diorama ... furthermore, the first series of photographs that now rank as works of art were made in 1843-48 in Edinburgh by
D. 0. Hill, a landscape painter who needed to take portrait notes for a huge group picture he had undertaken to paint."
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List of 129 Photographers Represented in the Exhibition and Titles of Their Pictures
* Indicates Color
ALLEN, Harold BARNELL, J.D. 1) General Store Show Case, *9) Irish Castle Virginia City, Montana BISCHOF, Werner 2) Old Jail Stair, Carthage, Illinois 10) Famine in India ANDERSSON, Jack 11) Barau, Indo-China 3) Nude and Dandelions BL0DGETT, Jeremy ANGUTI, Michael *12) The Bridge 4) Guggenheim Museum *13) The Tunnel APTECKER, George B0CH, Alfred 5) Bearded Man and Nude Painting *14) Casbah, Tangiers ARNOLD, Eve B0RAM, Robert, M. Photog. 6) Boy and Microphone *15) Assembly Line ATTIE, David BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret 7) Cat, Guitar and Avocado *16) Wheat Field AVEDON, Richard 17) Pittsburgh 8) The Braques
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List of Entries, Continued:
BRAKE, Brian GLICKMAN, Phil 18) Picasso, His Son and Cocteau 59) The Terrified Deer BREITENBACH, Joseph GLINN, Burt 19) War Orphan, Korea 60) Sammy Davis, Jr. BROOKS, Charlotte 61) Vanguard 20) Teen-Age Driver 62) Khrushchev and Lincoln BUBLEY, Esther GREGOR, Carola 21) Moroccan Woman 63) Larch Trees 22) St. Luke's Waiting Room HAAS, Ernst 23) Brazilian Street Scene *64) Norwegian Fjord, 1959 BULLOCK, Wynn 65) Pigeons *24) Light Abstraction 66) Silhouette 25) Woman and the Thistle HALL, Theodore Seymour, APSA CAPA, Cornell 67) Ebb and Flow 26) Ballet School, Moscow HALLOCK, Althea W. 27) Pasternak, 1958 *68) East River, United Nations 28) Religion in Russia HALSMAN, Philippe CAPA, Robert 69) Edith Sitwell 29) Normandy Beachhead, 1944 70) Albert Einstein 30) Snipers, Paris, 1944 HARBUTT, Charles 31) Immigrants, Israel, 1948 71) Circus Moon CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri HARRINGTON, Phillip 32) Andalusia, Spain 1937 *72) African Burial Ground 33) Matisse and Doves *73) In a Chinese Garden 34) R. J. Oppenheimer HARRIS, Kay CHADWICK, Taber 74) Young Painter 35) Bullet Holes through a Tin Sign HARTMANN, Erich CHONG, Jerry Y. 75) Cotton Pickers, North Carolina *36) Kilauea Iki Volcano, Hawaii HAWLEY, Margaret COLE, Bernard 76) Dandelion Seeds 37) Shoemaker's Lunch HEYMAN, Ken COOKE, Jerry 77) Fish Nets *38) Football HOFER, Evelyn CUNNINGHAM, George M. 78) Landscape near Florence *39) Idinen, Libya 79) Streetcleaner, Florence CURTIN, Walter A. HORST, Horst P. 40) Canadian Hog Farmer *80) Two Moslem Women DANTZIC, Jerry 41) Point of View JONES, Carolyn Mason d'ARAZIEN, Arthur 81) The Bridge through the Window *42) Lime Kiln, Texas JONES, Carter DAVIDSON, Bruce *82) Paint Pots 43) Under the Coney Island Boardwalk KALISCHER, Clemens ECHAGUE, Jose Ortiz 83) Cuban Lady 44) Cerros de Calatayud KARSH, Yousuf EIDLITZ, Dorothy Meigs, FPSA 84) Hemingway 45) Skating Rink, Rockefeller Plaza, 85) Schweitzer New York 86) Cocteau ERWITT, Elliott KAUFFMAN, Mark *46) Casals' Cello *87) Punting on the Thames FALK, Sam *88) Boating on the Cherwell 47) The Conference KERTESZ, Andre 48) The Tent at Night 89) Street Scene, Nassau FEININGER, Andreas KESSEL, Dmitri 49) Web of Yellow Garden Spider *90) The Frog FORBERT, David J. *91) The Lone Brownstone *50) The Seine in Autumn *92) Puma *5l) Laying Cement, Mexico KLUTE, Jeannette FROELICH, William *93) Sea Shells *52) Holy Powder Sellers of Banaras KNOPF, Hans *53) Dyed Fabric, Pakistan 94) Cattle Range Trail FUSCO, Paul 95) Sand Hills of Nebraska 54) Ring-Around-the-Rosy LANDSHOFF, H. GAGNON, Jim 96) The Poet Kenward Elmslie 55) In an Art Gallery 97) An American Place - Stieglitz GARDNER, Richard N. 98) Max Osborn *56) Krak des Chevaliers, Syria LANGE, Dorothea GERACI, A. John, M. Photog. 99) Funeral Cortege 57) 'Shorty' Anderson, Designer LEACH, David G. GILL, Leslie *100) Leaping Impalas *58) Still Life, 1952 LEIPZIG, Arthur 101) Sleeping Child (more) Photography in the Fine Arts II -- 4
List of Entries, Concluded:
LERCH, Leo, APSA RUOHOMAA, Kosti 102) Homeward 140) Monhegan Island in Winter LESSING, Erich 141) Woman and Tree Trunk 103) Hungarian Revolution SARASON, Dr. Henry LIBERMAN, Alexander 142) Cubes in Space •104) Alberto Giacometti SCHULTHESS, Emil 105) Andre Derain •143) African Sand Dunes LIEBERMAN, Archie SCHUTZER, Paul 106) Farm Silhouette 144) Unemployment in the Coal-Mine LIONNI, Leo Industry *107) Arrows on the Zocalo, Mexico City SEYMOUR, David LIPPINCOTT, W.J. 145) Bernard Berenson •108) Rice Paddy near Kyoto, Japan SHERMAN, Susan, APSA LOMEO, Angelo 146) On the Arno 109) Patzcuaro Fisherman SHROUT, Bill LOWITZ, Walter 147) Secrets of Long Life •110) Frozen Daybreak SHUSTAK, Lawrence N. MACHLIN, Sheldon M. 148) Jazz Composer Bobby Timmons 111) Archway in Orgosolo, Sardinia 149) Fog, Nova Scotia MARTENS, Charles H. SISTO, Ernest 112) Italian Hill Town 150) Race in the Rain MASSAR, Ivan SLEET, Moneta, Jr. •113) Steel Mill Interior 151) A Staircase in Khartoum •114) Black Barn STANLEY, David M., FPSA 115) Reeds and Reflections 152) Pattern in White MATTER, Herbert STANLEY, Joseph •116) The Essence of Freedom 153) Seated Woman on Stone Bench McKENNA, Rollie STETTNER, Louis 117) Dame Edith Sitwell 154) Freight Cars MCLAUGHLIN-Gi*Ll, Frances STEVENS, Roy 118) April Afternoon 155) Granary on the Mississippi MEISEL, Ulrich E., M. Photog. STEWART, John •119) Bass Weather •156) Flowers MILLER, Wayne 157) Oaxaca, Mexico 120) Dance Class SYLBERT, Jed MONTANUS, Neil and BODEN, Richard 158) Winter in the Park *121) Stairwell SZARKOWSKI, John MORATH, Inge 159) Beaver Flowage, Bayfield County 122) Mrs. Nash, London 160) Farm near Caledonia MORGAN, Barbara TACONIS, Kryn 123) Lloyd's Head 161) Mine Disaster, Marcinelle NEWMAN, Arnold THORNTON, Rev. W. George 124) Igor Stravinsky •162) Dreamboat 125) Chaim and Renee Gross VACCARO, Michael A. 126) Man in Church Doorway 163) W. Somerset Maugham NOBLE, Joseph V. 164) Frank Lloyd Wright 127) The Night Wind VACHON, John PENN, Irving 165) Nova Scotia Coal Miner *128) Trees and Fisherman 166) First Day at Nursery School 129) Colette 167) The Pit 130) John Marin VAN SICKLE, Kenneth PORTER, Eliot F. 168) Firemen . 131) Sick Herring Gull VASILLOV, W. W. ROWLINGS, John 169) Brick Layers 132) United Nations VELISSARATOS, Ruth REINICKE, Bruno C. 170) Lady of Fashion 133) Workman Pausing VINCENT, James C. RIBOUD, Marc *171) Tepees 134) Churchill WAHLUND, Carl B. 135) Camel Market, India 172) A Passing Shot at Broker Windows RODGER, George WARNER, Rick, M. Photog. 136) Kordofan •173) Golden Milkweed 137) Pigeon House WELLS, John, R. ROSS, Leonard *174) House Skeleton 138) Man on Bridge Cable WOLFF, Werner ROTHSTEIN, Arthur 175) Manhattan Dawn •139) Vintage Year ZAKANY, Jose Lorenzo, APSA *176) Misty Morn
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