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wlewisiii
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I think most of us here are aware of the insanely high level of importance that Alfred Stieglitz' journal "Camera Work" had on the developement of artistic photography. In many ways it helped to create the image of what we now think of as art by first championing "pictorialism" and then later moving against it in favor of "straight photography". The problem is that origional copies are few, far between & have prices that make collectors of Leica prototypes blanch.
The text hasn't aged particularily well though the images certainly have. And that's why I was excited to see this Taschen press volume at a local bookstore the other day. It's a 2008 reprint of a 1997 volume that has a short essay on "Camera Works" in English, German & French along with reproductions of all of the photographic images printed in Camera Works in chronological order. Even better is the price - $14.95(!).
It's a glorious illustration of where photography was at the beginning of the 20th century & I feel should inform us as we start the next one that is just as full of rapid & intense changes in the arts of photography as the last was.
William
The text hasn't aged particularily well though the images certainly have. And that's why I was excited to see this Taschen press volume at a local bookstore the other day. It's a 2008 reprint of a 1997 volume that has a short essay on "Camera Works" in English, German & French along with reproductions of all of the photographic images printed in Camera Works in chronological order. Even better is the price - $14.95(!).
It's a glorious illustration of where photography was at the beginning of the 20th century & I feel should inform us as we start the next one that is just as full of rapid & intense changes in the arts of photography as the last was.
William