Camera Work and Other Gravures
by Stieglitz, Steichen, Kasebier, White, and others
Exhibit: January - February, 2005
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ANNIE BRIGMAN
"Dryads"
CW No. 44, 1913
Camera Work photogravure
6 1/4 x 7 7/8, No inscriptions.
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ALVIN LANGDON COBURN
"John Glasworthy"
photogravure ca. 1908
8 x 6 1/4
Signed in pencil on the mount.
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ALVIN LANGDON COBURN
"William Nicholson"
photogravure ca. 1908
8 x 6 1/4
Signed in pencil on the mount.
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BARON DEMEYER
"Still Life"
1, CW No. 24, 1908
Camera Work photogravure
8 3/8 x 6, No inscriptions.
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ADOLPH DEMEYER
"Miss J. Rankin"
CW No. 40, 1912
Camera Work photogravure
7 3/4 x 6, No inscriptions.
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GERTRUDE KASEBIER
"Portrait (Miss N.)"
CW No. 1, 1903
Camera Work photogravure
No inscriptions.
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GERTRUDE KASEBIER
"The Red Man"
CW No. 1, 1903
Camera Work photogravure.
No inscriptions.
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GERTRUDE KASEBIER
"The Manger"
CW No. 1, 1903
Camera Work photogravure
No inscriptions.
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Alfred Stieglitz founded the photo magazine Camera Work in 1903 and acted as its guiding force until its last year of production in 1917. At the time, the place of photography in the art world was unsure. Stieglitz made it his mission to have photography recognized as art using Camera Work and his 291 Gallery as platforms from which to make his argument.
Stieglitz assembled a group of photographers with similar tastes and sympathies. They worked in the Pictorialist style which consisted of a soft focus and painterly effect. Photographs that looked more like paintings were more acceptable as art. Stieglitz, the son of a printer, printed most images in Camera Work using the photogravure process. The subtle tonalities in a photogravure, a mechanical reproduction, are astonishing. So much so, that they met Stieglitz's exacting standards, and he only printed his own work using the photogravure process during the Camera Work years. During this time period, Stieglitz was interested in modern New York and industrial progress as seen in "In the New York Central Yards."
Edward Steichen, Gertrude Kasebier, Clarence White, and Paul Strand are just some of the photographers featured in Camera Work. Stiechen"s "J. Piermont Morgan" and Kasebier's "The Red Man" show why they were renowned for their portraiture. Clarence White was very skilled in his use of light as evident in "Ring Toss" and counts among others Margaret Bourke-White and Dorothea Lange as students. Young Paul Strand's "straight" photography of New York and his abstract compositions were featured prominently as Camera Work came to a close.
Member of The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD)
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