ALFRED STIEGLITZ, A Dirigible, 1910, 7x7.063" Photogravure from Camera Work Issue 36, October 1911, Printed 1911, Photographer's last name, title, and date inscribed in pencil on mount verso.

Renowned American photographer Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) first studied photochemistry with Hermann Wilhelm Vogel at the Tekniche Hochschule in Berlin, from 1882-1886, and took his first photographs in 1883. He continued to travel and photograph in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland until 1890, when he returned to New York City. From 1890 to 1895 he was a partner in a photogravure firm. During this time, he concentrated on photographing the streets of New York City. In 1894, Stieglitz travelled to Europe and was elected a member of the Linked Ring, a Pictorialist society in London. In 1902, he founded the Photo-Secession Movement which attempted to prove that Pictorialist photography was a fine art form. From 1903 to 1917, Stieglitz was publisher and director of Camera Work magazine. The graphic section was run by Edward Steichen (1879-1973). In 1905, in partnership with Steichen, Stieglitz opened the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, later simply called 291, on Fifth Avenue in New York City. The galleries operated until 1917, and Stieglitz stopped taking photographs in 1937.

Camera Work was a sumptuous, erudite publication. The quarterly featured Steichen's Art Nouveau cover and printed some of the best of American art criticism, often reproducing reviews of 291 shows from other publications. Most importantly for Stieglitz, Camera Work boasted high-quality photogravures - printed under Stieglitz's supervision and tipped in by hand - in order to better represent subtle gradations of tone and value. This was seen as a major improvement over the typical halftone reproductions employed in other publications.

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