Unquestionably the most lavishly produced and influential photography journal ever published, Camera Work was the primary vehicle through which Alfred Stieglitz promoted his own work and championed the self-consciously artistic photographs of Edward Steichen, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Clarence White, and other members of the Stieglitz circle, the Photo-Secession. The journal’s photographs appeared as hand-pulled photogravures carefully tipped-in to each copy. The first issue of Camera Work was devoted to Gertrude Käsebier, whose Blessed Art Thou Among Women beautifully embodies the Victorian ideals of motherhood and femininity.