Photographing on the Wane — Or Maybe Not

1910

Photographing on the Wane

It Is Reported That Amateurs Are Showing Decreased Interest in Societies and at Exhibitions

Complaints are rife of decreased interest in photographic societies and in photographic exhibitions. There are certainly fewer of the latter than there were six or eight years ago, and societies, if not actually less numerous, are on the whole weaker both in numbers and in enthusiasm.

In the United States their numbers have decreased 50 or 60 per cent, at least. It is easy to deduce from this a decay of interest in photography and a lessening of the number of amateur photographers, and, indeed, this easy operation has been performed.

Simple deductions on complex questions should always be regarded with suspicion, and in this case suspicion develops into incredulity when it is found that side by side with the degeneration of the photographic society an increased and ever-increasing business is being done in plates, films and papers.