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Photography.- Stieglitz (Alfred, editor) Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly, numbers XLII-XLVIII in 6 vol. (numbers XLII & XLIII issued together), illustrated with photogravures, halftones and reproductions after works by Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, Francis Bruguière, Paul B. Haviland, Frederick H. Pratt, James Craig Annan, Frank Eugene, Anne Brigman, Marius de Zayas, Arthur Allen Lewis, and Abraham Walkowitz, advertisements, number XLIV lacking 1 ('Music') of the Walkowitz reproductions, original printed wrappers, splitting and loss to some spines, tears and chipping, 4to, New York, 1913-1916.

⁂ A seminal photographic periodical, which has been called 'consummately intellectual' (Andrew Roth The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century, New York, 2001), and 'by far the most beautiful of all photographic magazines' (Richard Whelan Alfred Stieglitz, New York, 1995). In the present numbers we have scenes of New York City and Spain, and portraits including Henri Matisse, George Bernard Shaw, Edward Gordon Craig, Yvette Guilbert, and Isadora Duncan. Number XLVII is an issue celebrating the Photo-Secession movement and the gallery at 291 Fifth Avenue, NYC, with contributions by Francis Picabia and Djuna Barnes, amongst numerous others. Number XLVIII includes reproductions of 6 halftones of Alfred Stieglitz's 'Exhibition "Arrangements" at "291"'.

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Photography.- Stieglitz (Alfred, editor) Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly, numbers XLII-XLVIII in 6 vol. (numbers XLII & XLIII issued together), illustrated with photogravures, halftones and reproductions after works by Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, Francis Bruguière, Paul B. Haviland, Frederick H. Pratt, James Craig Annan, Frank Eugene, Anne Brigman, Marius de Zayas, Arthur Allen Lewis, and Abraham Walkowitz, advertisements, number XLIV lacking 1 ('Music') of the Walkowitz reproductions, original printed wrappers, splitting and loss to some spines, tears and chipping, 4to, New York, 1913-1916.

⁂ A seminal photographic periodical, which has been called 'consummately intellectual' (Andrew Roth The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century, New York, 2001), and 'by far the most beautiful of all photographic magazines' (Richard Whelan Alfred Stieglitz, New York, 1995). In the present numbers we have scenes of New York City and Spain, and portraits including Henri Matisse, George Bernard Shaw, Edward Gordon Craig, Yvette Guilbert, and Isadora Duncan. Number XLVII is an issue celebrating the Photo-Secession movement and the gallery at 291 Fifth Avenue, NYC, with contributions by Francis Picabia and Djuna Barnes, amongst numerous others. Number XLVIII includes reproductions of 6 halftones of Alfred Stieglitz's 'Exhibition "Arrangements" at "291"'.

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