Munsey's Magazine, July 1914

About this issue

This issue features an illustrated article on the New York Camera Club, located at 121 West Sixty-Eighth Street. The piece examines contemporary photographic aesthetics through an elderly photographer's visit to the club's exhibition. The article contrasts "straight" photography with experimental techniques, exploring how modern equipment and film types enable atmospheric effects impossible in earlier decades. Specific photographs by club members—including Maximilian Toch's "Venice," Willard P. Little's "Bridge at Algeciras," and Edith H. Tracy's Panama Canal images—demonstrate varying approaches from faithful reproduction to imaginative interpretation. The discussion addresses sunset photography, compositional timing (H. S. Grinleese's "Swans"), and atmospheric conditions (Hal D. Bernstein's "In the Fog"). The issue also includes a poem, "Constancy," by Charles Hanson Towne, and the opening of a Western fiction serial, "The Killing Nerve" by Henry Wallace Phillips, featuring a character named Red Saunders recounting an encounter with Bill Reeves.