First national exhibition of pictorial photography
An exhibition catalogue issued in 1920 in Buffalo, New York, by the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and the Buffalo Camera Club, presenting pictorialist photographs for an art-minded public. The plates are soft-focus, tonal prints: a seated portrait of a woman gazing upward, an arched stone gateway framing a distant hillside, a mountain slope dappled with light, and two standing figures against an adobe wall. A designer might draw on their dark, diffused tonal range and the way light is shaped to build mood and depth.
