CAMERA WORK
A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY
[Just a note from the 'transcriber' of these articles: You may come across spelling of words that seem at odds with your memory. If you are under 100 years old, this is expected as many of the terms are archaic. Perhaps the authors and editors of Camera Work intended the spelling to be that way. If you are really irked by this and think the word just has to be incorrect, I invite you to let me know about it. I will check the text and make the correction - if I made an error in transcribing. Otherwise, the spelling will remain as this book has it. I will look for a publisher's correction page (often called 'errata') to see if any corrections have been noted and published elsewhere. Thank you for your interest.]
Pete Devlin
- An Apology - Alfred Stieglitz, Editor
Joseph T. Keiley Associate Editor
Dallett Fuguet Associate Editor
John Francis Strauss Associate Editor
- The reason for the publication of Camera Work clearly stated.
- Photography and Natural Selection - J. C. Warburg
- Dealing with the evolution of the photographic process.
- The Photo-Secession Exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts — Its Place and Significance in the Progress of Pictorial Photography - Joseph T. Keiley
- With a title like that no further description is required - nice essay.
- On the Straight Print - Robert Demachy
- At the turn of the century the question was asked again: Can a straight print be 'art'?
- The Buffalo Exhibition - Joseph T. Keiley
- A review of the exhibition, some of its exhibitors, with veiled references to the 'guiding light' of the secessionist movement.
- Toward Amorphism -From "Men of the Hour"
- A hearty poking fun of formless art work (with examples!)
- "What is '291'?" -Alfred Stieglitz
- An entire issue of the publication went to the responses to this question: to define what '291' was.
- "untitled" -John Marin
- Out of the many different responses to the question (What is 291?), some favorable, some not, I chose this poem.
- Photography -Paul Strand
- An essay to turn ones thinking about photography from competetion with the other arts to an individuals right to express him/her-self through photography.
- Resources - Various
- Two primary resources of course are Camera Work - A Pictorial Guide and Camera Work - A Critical Anthology, but there are others that are useful to those who wish to know more about vintage photography or it's early practitioners.
Also included will be resources available today that hold photography in the same light as 'Camera Work'.
- Errata
- Discrepancies between the two volumes will be found here, whether they be images, credits, or text.