Stieglitz: Camera Work: Bibliotheca Universalis

Texte von:Pam Roberts war von 1982-2001 Kuratorin der British Royal Photographic Society. Sie lebt in Bath.

Pioneers in photography as an art form: Highlights from Stieglitz s legendary photo journal (1903 1917). 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 thePhoto-Secession, a progressive movementconcerned 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 Workwas 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 all photographs from the journal s 50 issues.

About the Series:

Bibliotheca Universalis Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, democratic price. Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, the name TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible, open-minded publishing.

Bibliotheca Universalisbrings together nearly 100 of our all-time favorite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia.

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