CAMERA WORK


Camera Work: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine Devoted to Photography, vol. 23 and 24 (complete, edited by Alfred Stieglitz, texts by him, E.J. Steichen, Charles H. Caffin, and others, photographic plates by Clarence H. White (16, in volume 23), Baron A. De Meyer (7), and William E. Wilmerding (1), volume 23 with 2 photographs loose from mounts, 2 advertisement leaves defective, light dampstain in upper margin of a few leaves; volume 24 lacking 3 photographs and approximately 12 leaves of text, spotting to the 4 still life photographs by De Meyer, publisher's stiff wrappers (some loss to spine of volume 24, edges frayed), small folio (310 x 215mm.), New York, Alfred Stieglitz, 1908; and incomplete copies of volumes 21 (which has 3 photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn), 22, and 24/5, sold as a periodical not subject to return (5)
|"Camera Work was exceptional in the history of the medium in that it used photographic imagery as the stimulus for investigations of time and space, nature and culture, art and life" (Roth, The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century, 2001).Volume 23 includes the complete suite of sixteen platinotypes by Clarence H. White, "...made under the supervision of the photographer himself, and all of them were done directly from the original negatives". Comprises: Portrait - Miss Mary Everett; Morning; The Arbor; Lady in Black with Statuette; Boys Going to School; Landscape - Winter; Portrait - Master Tom; Boys Wrestling; The Pipes of Pan; Nude; Entrance to the Garden; Portrait - Mrs. Clarence H. White; Drops of Rain; Boy with Wagon; Portrait - Mrs. Harrington Mann; Girl with Rose.Volume 24 includes seven photogravures by Baron A. De Meyer, comprising: Still Life (1-4); Mrs. Brown Potter; Guitar Player of Seville; Study of a Gitana; and one photogravure from an original negative ("Over the House-tops - New York") by William E. Wilmerding.Volume 21 includes three halftone reproductions by Alvin Langdon Coburn, comprising The Bridge, Venice; Notre Dame; Spider-webs.