Alfred Stieglitz
Camera Work, No. 1

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Camera Work, No. 1
DateJanuary 1903
MediumPrinted publication with photogravures
DimensionsOverall: 12 × 8 1/2 in. (30.5 × 21.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2020.351.1
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 208
On view

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Department
Photography
Description

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.


ProvenanceEdward Steichen; given by Clara and Kate Steichen to Mari Carmen [last name illegible]; […]; Kaspar M. Fleischmann, Zurich; [Christie’s Paris, November 13, 2014, lot 85, bought in]; purchased by John Teti, 2014; donated to New Hampshire Institute of Art, 2017; merged with New England College, 2019; deaccessioned from the John Teti Rare Photography Book Collection, 2020; [Skinner, Marlborough, Mass., November 2, 2020, sale 3482T, lot 1073]; purchased by MFAH, 2020.

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January 1903–June 1917
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Printed publication with photogravures
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1947
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1944
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1944
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1944
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