Stieglitz. Camera work
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.
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.
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Pam Roberts was Curator at the British Royal Photographic Society from 1982-2001. She lives in Bath.
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TASCHEN 25
Stieglitz. Camera work |
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Eadweard Muybridge. The Human and Animal Locomotion Photographs Hardcover, 13.1 x 9.6 in., 804 pages, $ 69.99 Life in motion. The forerunner of the moving image |
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TASCHEN 25 50 Photo Icons. The Story Behind the Pictures Hardcover, 9.4 x 12 in., 304 pages, $ 29.99 Landmarks in the history of photography. The stories behind history's most extraordinary photographs |
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TASCHEN 25 James Bidgood Hardcover, 7.7 x 15.4 in., 184 pages, $ 29.99 Glamourama. |