Camera Work was a first journal photo whose focus was on visual, rather than technical. This book brings together a selection from the journal’s 50 issues.
Alfred Stieglitz Books
Alfred Stieglitz was a pivotal American photographer and modern art promoter who spent fifty years making photography a respected art form. Beyond his own lens work, Stieglitz was renowned for his New York galleries in the early 20th century, where he introduced many avant-garde European artists to the U.S. His legacy lies in his dedication to elevating photography and his role in shaping American modern art.
This collection of half-tone and photogravure reproductions from all 50 issues of the legendary photographic magazine produced by Stieglitz contains the work of Eduard Steichen, Frank Eugene, Clarence H. White, & others, as well as Stieglitz's own photography and original essays. Intro in English, German, French.
Alfred Stieglitz
Photographs & writings
Returning to print after fifteen years, a high-quality collection of seventy-three images from the career of the pioneering photographer features portraits of artist Georgia O'Keeffe and early twentieth-century New York City. 10,000 first printing.
Alfred Stieglitz (Aperture Masters of Photography, No 6)
- 96 pages
- 4 hours of reading
"[Stieglitz's] photographs of things and people-of sun and cloud shapes-become equivalents of a deeply critical yet affirmative inquiry into contemporary life. They are the objective and beautiful conclusions of that imagery" - Paul Strand
My Faraway One
Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: 1915-1933
- 832 pages
- 30 hours of reading
There are few couples in the history of 20th-century American art and culture more prominent than Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) and Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946). Between 1915, when they first began to write to each other, and 1946, when Stieglitz died, O'Keeffe and Stieglitz exchanged over 5,000 letters (more than 25,000 pages) that describe their daily lives in profoundly rich detail. This long-awaited volume features some 650 letters, carefully selected and annotated by leading photography scholar Sarah Greenough. In O'Keeffe's sparse and vibrant style and Stieglitz's fervent and lyrical manner, the letters describe how they met and fell in love in the 1910s; how they carved out a life together in the 1920s; how their relationship nearly collapsed during the early years of the Depression; and how it was reconstructed in the late 1930s and early 1940s. At the same time, the correspondence reveals the creative evolution of their art and ideas; their friendships with many of the most influential figures in early American modernism (Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Paul Strand, to name a few); and their relationships and conversations with an exceptionally wide range of key figures in American and European art and culture (including Duncan Phillips, Diego Rivera, D. H. Lawrence, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Marcel Duchamp). Furthermore, their often poignant prose reveals insights into the impact of larger cultural forces—World Wars I and II; the booming economy of the 1920s; and the Depression of the 1930s—on two articulate, creative individuals.
"""Les photographies (que prend Stieglitz) des choses et des personnes - du soleil et de la forme des nuageséquivalent à un questionnement de la vie contemporaine, profondément critique mais affirmatif. Elles sont les conclusions, belles et objectives, de ce questionnement."" Paul Strand."
