otographic standards and
studying the arts for breadth of view are of chief importance.

Some of the advantages which photography offers are worth restating. It
helps to draw one closer to nature and to seek fresh air. Through the
exercise and cultivation of choice, it teaches how to decorate the home,
to dress with taste, and to keep an alert eye and mind on the passing
events of the world. Because the Association knows that photography is
able to teach these things, it sought the aid of art museums and public
libraries to conduct photographic exhibitions so that children and adults
may not only see fine examples of the work of the camera in the hands of
artists, but be led thereby to appreciate more fully the value of
photography as an aid to interesting composition and a quickening of the
eye in realizing the beauty of sunlight and shadows which flit around us
much unrecognized at times. Succeeding in gaining the sympathetic
co-operation of seventeen museums, in the winter of 1917-18 the
Association collected, from many of the most important workers in this
country, more than two hundred prints, which were divided into two groups
and exhibited as follows:

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Milwaukee Art Institute, Art Institute of
Chicago, City Art Museum (St. Louis), Toledo Museum of Art, Detroit Museum
of Art, Cleveland Art Museum, Cincinnati Museum of Art, Morristown
Library, Newark Museum Association, New Britain (Conn.) Institute,
Worcester Art Museum, Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Guild of Allied Arts
(Buffalo), Grand Rapids Art Association, University of Oklahoma, New
Orleans Art Association.

There was also held in New York City an exhibition of the work of the New
England, New Jersey and Connecticut photographers, and among the immediate
activities of the Association will be the holding in New York of
exhibitions of the work of members of the Pacific Coast and other places,
so that there may be established a fuller understanding of the points of
view among the various pictorialists throughout the country.

The Association hopes to establish, in designated cities, pictorial
centers where photographs may always be seen, and centers for intercourse
and for exchange of views among workers. As a result of its plans, there
will soon be opened a branch of the Pictorial Photographers of America,
which will be called the Pacific Coast Chapter, embracing workers in the
following States: Oregon, California, Wyoming