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Highlights from the legendary photo journal
"This has to be the 'must buy' book of the decade - no photographic
library will be complete without it. " - mono, UK
Photographer, writer, publisher, and curator Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)
was a visionary, far ahead of his time. Around the turn of the 20th century
he founded the Photo-Secession, a progressive movement concerned with
advancing the creative possibilities of photography, and by 1903 began
publishing Camera Work, an avant-garde magazine devoted to voicing the
ideas, both in images and words, of the Photo-Secession. Camera Work was
the first photo journal whose focus was visual, rather than technical,
and its illustrations were of the highest quality hand-pulled photogravure
printed on Japanese tissue. This book brings together a broad selection
from the journal’s 50 issues.
Text by:
Pam Roberts was Curator at the British Royal Photographic Society from
1982-2001. She lives in Bath.
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