Alfred Stieglitz. Camera Work

This is an astounding little book from DK! If you are interested in early photography, and especially the crossover years between photography imitating neoclassical painting composition and then shifting into its own new kinds of images.It presents the complete set of content from "Camera Work", extending from 1903 to 1917, with beautifully digitised images, and text in three languages. The cover photo of theatre and early movie star, Evelyn Nesbit, is a gem but, as with so many photos in this book, it would have stood up to print at larger size. It would be lovely to see a limited print run of this book in a much larger format In the end, its small pages size is my only criticism of it, but that it exists at all makes up for its size. If you collect Taschen works, then don;t omit this one. It is certain to rise in value after its print run.

Although not a camera buff, I've always liked and admired photographs, particularly black and white imagery. This, dealing as it does, with photo-gravure is a bit of a new experience for me. There are some cracking images, as far as I am concerned, and this book should, in my opinion, be part of every photo lovers library.

This book gets five stars for value and as a reference for anyone who wants to know which pictures appeared in each edition of Camera Work. The images are taken from the copies of Camera Work held by the RPS and here we get to the reasons for a lost star. Due to the reduced size of the book the images could not be reproduced at the size they appeared in the magazine and the quality of the images is rather poor. I compared the quality of the Coburn and Frederick Evans images here with those from other books I own and although the images presented here have the same content they do not remotely reflect the quality of work that these masters actually produced. So- explore this book for information but to really appreciate the images within do look elsewhere.Having said all that the book remains an astonishing bargain and belongs on every keen photographers bookshelf- as a reference.

Comprehensive compilation of Camera Work illustrations. May not be perfectly subtle reproductions but very good.Right product, good price.What more can I say to fill up the required number of words?

Very Good. I bought two.

Excellent book about Camera Work magazine, pictorialism and the secessionists

recommended

I find it very odd that the first section of text is in English, the second in German, and the last in French. Whilst the titles of all the images are in English. A publishing and binding glitch ?. After a bit of research it seems no it's not a glitch. However the listing on this page says English is the language and really you'd need a keen eye to see 'Mul edition' meaning many languages.

Alfred Stieglitz foi de suma importancia para tornar a fotografia como se tornou no seculo XX e como é hoje: uma expressão de Arte. Antes vista como algo pouco nobre, seu trabalho notável fez a fotografia ser reconhecida introduzindo-a ao campo da "fine art", ao usa-la como veículo de expressão pictorialista. Por assim dizer, ele tambem foi um pioneiro dos primeiros foto-clubes, onde varios fotografos e praticantes deste oficio, homens da alta sociedade, ou classe média, podiam expor seus trabalhos em publicação periodica na forma de jornal/revista. Uma obra historica do pioneirismo pictorialista.

I love that almost all of the images from Camera work are contained in this volume.I do wish that the text of each issue was accompanied - so that we in the modern day might read each issue as they were intended by Stieglitz and Steichen, but that would no doubt have increase the price (single issues of camera work go for thousands on eBay)No matter, this is a wonderful piece of photographic history and belongs in the collection of the discerning artist.

Libro che tutti gli appassionati di fotografia e di arte in generale dovrebbero avere per un costo irrisorio. Ottima qualità di stampa e testi esaurienti.

brilliant

un moment très important de l'histoire de la photographie.