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Stieglitz: Camera Work (25th Anniversary Special Edtn) | 
 enlarge | Creators: Julia Krumhauer, Simone Philippi, Ute Kieseyer, Alfred Stieglitz
Publisher: Taschen
Category: Book
List Price: $14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 63615
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Edition: 25th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 552
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.6 x 1.8
ISBN: 3822837849
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783822837849
ASIN: 3822837849
Publication Date: August 1, 2008
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Product Description
Photographer, writer, publisher, and curator Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was a visionary, far ahead of his time. Around the turn of the 20th century he founded the Photo-Secession, a progressive movement concerned with advancing the creative possibilities of photography, and by 1903 began publishing "Camera Work", an avant-garde magazine devoted to voicing the ideas, both in images and words, of the Photo-Secession. "Camera Work" was the first photo journal whose focus was visual, rather than technical, and its illustrations were of the highest quality hand-pulled photogravure printed on Japanese tissue. This book brings together a broad selection from the journal's 50 issues.
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 Photo history December 20, 2008
Well this book is a steal at the price. It contains all the work published in Stieglitz's Camera Work magazine. This was the outlet for the Pictoralist school of photography who attempted to duplicate the work of painters.
You can quickly understand why the f/64 Group led by Ansel Adams, Weston and Cunningham were revolting against this style. The works are gloomy, brown, soft and derivative of the gloomy soft Victorian style of the painters of the time. There are still many gems included among the chaff and this book should be on your shelf if you are a photographer.
Taschen is publishing more of this type of catalogs of a particular photographer or style and are well worth looking at.
 Taschen does it again October 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
To all those who have wondered, like me, what it was like to page through Stieglitz's "Camera Work" this is a great oppotunity. This thick tome contains all the images from the highly reguarded publication for a very low price. However, as I often find to be the case with Taschen books, this volume lack the hard cover and size needed to convey the power of these images. While I can understand that by allowing "Camera Work" to be owned for the price of lunch brings luxury to anyone. I feel that an additional larger volume would immortalize a work that, before now, could only be viewed in its entirety by a select few.
A wonderful history of early photography October 13, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Stieglitz - Camera Work is an extract of the photographs that appeared in the Camera Work magazine that Stieglitz created and edited. The photographs chart the history and change in photographic styles from pictorialist to the straight photography of Paul Strand. As such it is a historical document to the changing style of the medium. However, more than that it shows many accomplished photographers and their work that is truly refreshing even by today's standards. The size of the book is quite nice, portable but also large enough that it will take time to work through it all and enjoy the pictures. The essay on Stieglitz and his motivations and involvement in the photographic scene of his day and his importance even then is also quite interesting. He was (and is) a real giant of the photographic world. I "only" gave 4 stars because the book is not available in hard cover, and there is a big 25 year anniversary image on the book spine. I don't much like advertising things like that on my bookshelf, and as the book was issued in 2008 (and Taschen's 25th anniversary was in 2005 or 2007) I don't quite get why they are branding this book like that. Still, a sterling effort on their part. Print reproduction quality is excellent.
For who is this book? For photographic artists, people interested in photographic history, as well as photographers who are looking to the past for a way to refresh and invigorate their photography.
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