Camera Work is neither a magazine in the ordinary sense of the word nor is it a de luxe set of books. Its fifty numbers were published at intervals over a period of 13 years, from 1904 to 1917, by Alfred Stieglitz in New York. It contains photogravure reproductions and articles which are the only complete and disinterested record of the development of photography as a medium of expression. It contains as well, reproductions and articles dealing with the concomitant and closely related development of modern painting. For the student of plastic expression in terms of today, Camera Work offers a veritable mine of interest and knowledge. It is unique among publications, not only in the beauty of its actual form but also as an attempt free from all the compromises of commercialism, to mirror the aesthetic experimentation of the past 50 years.

Paul Strand