Camera Work No. 31

This is an uncut copy of the July 1910 issue of Alfred Stieglitz’s “illustrated quarterly magazine devoted to Photography and to the activities of the Photo-Secession.” Featured in this issue is the work of photographer Frank Eugene, American-born co-founder of the Photo-Secession group and one of the earliest professors of photography in the world; critic Sadakichi Hartmann called Eugene’s work “the first time that a truly artistic temperament, a painter of generally recognized accomplishments and ability asserts itself in American photography.”

All of Eugene’s contributions to the issue are present here—fourteen photogravures printed onto tissue paper, tipped into the issue by Stieglitz himself:

Plate I: H. R. H. Rupprecht, Prince of Bavaria
Plate II: Fritz v. Uhde
Plate III: Prof. Adolf Hengeler
Plate IV: Prof. Franz v. Stuck
Plate V: Willi Geiger
Plate VI: Prof. Adolf v. Seitz
Plate VII: Dr. Georg Hirth
Plate VIII: Dr. Emanuel Lasker and His Brother
Plate IX: Kimono: Frl. v. S.
Plate X: Frau Ludwig von Hohlwein
Plate XI: Nude: A Child
Plate XII: ‘Hortensia’
Plate XIII: Nude: A Study
Plate XIV: Direktor F. Goetz

The magazine also features a number of articles and essays on contentious arts-related issues of the time, including: “The New Thought Which is Old” by critic Charles H. Caffin; “The Fourth Dimension from a Plastic Point of View” by painter Max Weber; “The Brain and the World” by journalist Benjamin De Casseres; “What is Beauty?” by photographer Joseph T. Keiley, and more. Several pages in the back of the book feature advertisements, designed by Stieglitz, for cameras and photographic supplies.

The cover is of a dark gray-green paper with white printing, set in an Art Nouveau typeface designed by Edward Steichen.

The pages of this copy are uncut, and the covers are unmounted (leading to some edge wear). [GCB4]

$ 2,000.00