WHAT'S NEW Here's where you'll find what's new in the world of Stieglitz and The Photo
Secession. If you have any news, or events that you would like to share - please send them along, and we'll post them here.
- Taschen has just published Camera Work: The Complete
Illustrations 1903-1917,with a text by Pam Roberts of the Royal Photographic
Society. Color enhances the quality of these illustrations, small though they may be.
Selected texts from Camera Work are reproduced in facsimile.
- Collectors may be interested in the December l997 catalogue
issued by the Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA featuring Camera Work and other photogravures.
The Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York City is another good source for this kind of
material.
- Professor Melinda Boyd Parsons of Memphis State
University is writing a book length study of the Anglo-American painter Pamela Colman
Smith, the first non-photographic artist to exhibit at 291.
- The highly successful Pictorialism Into Modernism: The
Clarence White School of Photography, with a catalogue of the same name (Rizzoli)
is still on the road, ending at the Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, on April
26th, 1998.
- Christian A. Peterson's exhibition, After the
Photo-Secession: American Pictorial Photography, 1910-1955, with accompanying
catalogue opened in Minneapolis on February 8th, 1997 and will close, after traveling to
the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas on October 17th, 1999.
- The New Pictorialist Society, while no longer producing
a periodical, is still functioning. This organization's publications are a key
source for early techniques.
- Professor Melinda Boyd Parsons of Memphis State
University is writing a book length study of the Anglo-American painter Pamela Colman
Smith, the first non-photographic artist to exhibit at 291.
- Perry Miller Adato of WNET, New York is preparing a
film biography of Alfred Stieglitz for the American Masters Series.
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Who
Was Alfred Stieglitz?
Photographer extraordinaire, publisher, critic, and patron -
dedicated his life to all that was fresh and vital in the arts. His first love and
sustaining occupation was photography, and in addition to his own work, he inspired and
promoted a group of the most vigorous and original photographers in the country, known as
the Photo-Secession. Their very name suggested rebellion and regeneration, and for
ten heady years, beginning in 1902, this circle of American artists waged a battle to
prove that photography was no longer a handmaiden of science and commerce, but the equal
of any of the fine arts.
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