In England George Davison (1856-1930) followed Emerson's approach and a group of twelve photographers called The Linked Ring Brotherhood broke away from 'The Photographic Society' in 1892 because of it's lack of interest in art photography. The first show of The Linked Ring Brotherhood in November 1893 was called the Photographic Salon and included works by Henry Peach Robinson (1830-1901), George Davison (1856-1930) and Frank Meadow Sutcliffe (1853-1941). The show divided the critics into those that saw that photography was indeed an art and those that saw that it wasn't! Camera clubs now started to be more selective in the works they selected for exhibition and some required artistic rather than purely technical merit.
 
Early members of the Brotherhood included:

Malcolm Arbuthnot (Joined in 1907) George Davison Frederick Henry Evans John Montgomery Charles Grove (Waterbaby) Hugo Henneberg J. Dudley Johnston Alexander Keighley

René Le Begue Paul Martin Henry Peach Robinson Sarah Choate Sears Alfred Stieglitz Frank Meadow Sutcliffe Clarence H. White

The list is instructive because it shows how quickly the influence of the Brotherhood spread through international photographic exhibitions modelled on the annual London Salon. The membership of the Linked Ring soon included photographers from Austria (Hugo Henneberg), France (Paul Martin) and America (Alfred Stieglitz, Sarah Sears, Clarence H. White). International photographic exhibitions were the ideal means to show the new works being produced and were soon being held in major cities - Vienna (1892), Hamburg (1893), Paris (1894), Turin (1897) and Berlin (1899).