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Newspaper Page Text• Camera angles Photographs at exhibit reflect ‘Turn-of-the-Century America’ By IRVING DESFOR AP Newsfeatures A representative selection of photographs is included in a significant exhibition of picto rial art which typifies: “Tum of-the-Century America: 1890- 1910,” currently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City until Oc tober 2. The exhibition, conceived some four years ago by Patri cia Hills, Associate Professor of Art History at York College, City University of New York, has now come to fruition under her research, organizing and direction. It was made possible by a grant from J.C. Penney as part of the company’s celebra tion of its 75th anniversary. Following its stay at the Whit ney Museum, the exhibition will tour the country with stops scheduled at the St. Louis, Seattle and Oakland Art Mu seums through the end of May, 1978. The United States at the turn of the century was in an ex citing era of expansion as its economy exploded in unprece dented growth along with its immigration and foreign trade. There was a boom, too, in so cial reforms and for increased recognition of women’s rights and labor. The changes in America were inevitably reflected in its fine arts, in paintings, graphics and photographs, as artists ex- Doc Cook’s Jean & T-Shirt Shop 206 E Solomon JEANS STARTING AT $749 T-SHIRTS - _* AS LONG Os* AS THEY EAST Y’ALL COME! CARDEN BROS. WHOLESALE, INC. 1142 Anne St. Phone 227-9421 / 50 LB. X / if JIM DANDY X IIM “ ANOY t CHUNK || horse feed RE6. $9.99 tf>A7E 1 s 7” / V 3 / J< 50 LB. (((’ 25 LB. A' JIM DANDY M JIM DANDY & HUNTER’S y PUPPY > | CHOICE LOVE | 1 $ 6 49 ./ k $ 4 99 / JAZZ BIG KICK HORSE FEED 50 lb. *3 29 BARREL RACER ALFALFA CUBES 50 lb. »3«’ |u. S. Ho. 1 I WHITE POTATOES 50 lb. *2” 1 19 * Jp ' I r ► f 1 I Mr ■ J- J TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY portrait of actress Evelyn Nesbit in 1903 was made by a leading photographer of the era, Gertrude Kasebier. It is from the “Turn-of-the-Century America” Exhibition at the Whitney Museum, the original loaned by Rochester’s International Museum of Photography. perirnented with new subject matter in the spirit of the times. The Turn-of-the-Century exhibition displays 280 exam ples of artistic expression in a variety of techniques of which about 100 are photographs. In 1890, Alfred Stieglitz re turned to America from Eu rope, determined to promote standards of excellence in pho tography. He had a decided im pact, aided by colleagues who were influenced by his ideas. Among them were Gertrude Kasebier, Clarence H. White, Alvin Coburn and Edward Stei chen. As editor of “Camera Notes” and “Camera Work,” Stieglitz began to advocate straight pho tography and to reject the ma nipulated type of pictorial pho tography which imitated the ef fects of painting and etching. It led first to an exhibition and in 1905 to the Photo-Secession Gal- lery at 291 Fifth Avenue. The gallery, known as “291,” began to display other art media along with photography to show their interrelated development. It became the heart and center of modern art in America. By the turn of the century, George Eastman had invented the Kodak Camera which, with other developments, produced photography for the masses. Commercial portrait studios sprang up in every major city but a core of art-conscious pho tographers began ex perimenting with light tech niques and processes like plati num printing to produce more expressive portraits. Their challenge was to produce a lik eness which was also artistic. Their success led a noted art critic to proclaim in 1901: “To day, portraits by our best pho tographers attain a higher av erage of all-round excellence than those by the best paint ers.” That period is also noted for the powerful documentary pho tography of Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine, social idealists with cameras. Riis was a news paper reporter who turned to photography to document with accuracy the books and stories he was writing on the wretched living conditions of the poor. Hine, a teacher and sociologist, was a compassionate partisan for humanity and reform. He photographed immigrants, chil dren, miners and the exploited in deplorable, unsanitary and unsafe working conditions. Their cameras were formidable weapons for social progress, leading to legislation which es tablished child labor laws and better working conditions. A human sidelight of the Turn-of-the-Century exhibition turned up in that its press par ty coincided with the 91st birth day of James Van Der Zee, the black photographer who docu mented Harlem in that period and is the only survivor among the contributing photographers. He was able to be present to celebrate the opening and enjoy the birthday cake provided by Penney’s. Miss Hills gathered the 280 items on display from the per manent collections of the Whit ney Museum and other gal leries and museums; from the Library of Congress and other historical societies and librar ies; and from private collec tions throughout the country. Many of the photographs are the original prints preserved through the years but some are modem prints made from origi nal negatives especially for this exhibition. It was intersting to learn that one well-known source for tum of-the-century photographs re fused to permit any of their original prints to be displayed in the Whitney Museum. 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