The San Diego Association of Camera Clubs will see
its 66th anniversary this coming February 2016. Imagine, Sixty-six years in
Balboa Park, the gem of San Diego. Sixty-six years of teaching, learning, competitions,
friendships. Sixty-six years of bringing photography to the community of San
Diego.
The Photographic Arts Society (PAS) of San Diego
filed as an Articles of Incorporation in the State of California on September
1, 1937. There was a boom in photography after World War II and by the closing years
of the 1940s there were twelve member camera clubs under the responsibility of
the Photographic Arts Society.
Dr. Watson referred to the
member clubs of the Photographic Arts Society as the “associated camera clubs”[1] as
early as February 1947. By November 1949 Carl F. Reupsch, Photographic Arts
Society President sent letters to all member clubs which included the following,
“…the name of the
organization should possibly be changed to, “The Southern California
Association of Camera Clubs”, which better expresses the intent and purpose of
the organization. Any name, in fact, would be satisfactory which designates
this society as a group of camera clubs rather than an organization composed of
individual members.” [2]
