Excerpt from Photograms of the Year, 1921: The Annual Review of the World's Pictorial Photographic Work In the London Salon for 1921 the entry of fine pictorial work from all parts of the world was larger than in any previous year in the history of the exhibition, and the prestige of the Salon and the honour of being hung on its walls greater than ever: it was generally acknowledged that the exhibition was the most notable show of pictorial photography ever seen in London. The Salon, reflecting as it does the trend of the best pictorial photography of the day, emphasised one or two other points that have already been the subject of discussion in the photographic Press. First, it showed that the tendency towards making use of the human face and figure for picture-making is greater than that towards landscape or other non-personal subjects; secondly, that there is a decided slump in photography in colours or coloured photographs - in fact, we doubt, even if colour photography on paper in the popular sense of the term becomes an accomplished fact, whether it will: ever oust good monochrome work from favour; and, thirdly, that the present is the day of the hand camera: the best exhibition prints in many cases may be regarded as the apotheosis of the snapshot. The r.p.s. Exhibition in a lesser degree reflected the same tendencies, and one also saw on the walls of the annual show at Russell Square evidences of the energies oi the newly - formed and badly-needed pictorial group that has been evolved from. The heterogeneous membership of the Society. Pictorial groups, under various names, have gathered together to help forward the good work of photography as an art in all parts of the world. This has been notably the case in Scotland, where the Scottish Photographic Circle has held strongly supported exhibitions, and in Wales, which has developed in the Cardiff district a very definite school of pictorial workers of outstanding merit. References to similar associations for the furtherance oi pictorial photography outside the British Isles will be found in the following pages in the articles dealing with different countries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.