Progress Medal

Alfred Steiglitz, American photographer, was awarded by unanimous vote of the members of the Royal Photographic Society (London) the Progress Medal--a prize heretofore awarded solely for scientific achievement.

Years ago Steiglitz saw the possibilities of photography as an artistic medium and set out to make a photograph a personal thing that should be adapted to different types--not a stiff, hard picture, but a soft, delicate thing, properly composed and balanced--with beauty of line and grace of movement, as in a fine painting.

Mr. Steiglitz has 150 medals from cities throughout Europe and America, including London, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Calcutta, Boston, Philadelphia, New York.