Camera Work

This article is about the American photography journal (1903–1917). For the British photography magazine (1976–1985), see Camerawork (magazine).
Cover of Camera Work, No 2, 1903. Cover design by Edward Steichen.

Camera Work was a quarterly photographic journal published by Alfred Stieglitz from 1903 to 1917. It presented high-quality photogravures by some of the most important photographers in the world, with the goal to establish photography as a fine art. It was called "consummately intellectual",[1] "by far the most beautiful of all photographic magazines",[2] and "a portrait of an age [in which] the artistic sensibility of the nineteenth century was transformed into the artistic awareness of the present day."[3]

  1. ^ Andrew Roth (2001). The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. NY: PPP Editions. p. 7.
  2. ^ Richard Whelan (1995). Alfred Stieglitz: A Biography. NY: Little, Brown. pp. 189–223. ISBN 978-0-316-93404-6.
  3. ^ Jonathan Green (1973). Camera Work: A Critical Anthology. NY: Aperture. pp. i, 12–23.