first edition
1916-1917 · N. Y.
by [STRAND, Paul & Alfred STIEGLITZ]
N. Y.: Camera Work, 1916-1917. First (only) editions of the final two issues of Alfred Stieglitz's monumental photographic periodical, Camera Work, including, in number 48, the earliest appearance in print of the work of Paul Strand, and in number 50, an issue entirely dedicated to the work of Strand. Limited to 500 copies printed. "The work of Paul Strand was the first photography to excite Stieglitz in a long time. He saw Strand as practicing a truly photographic version of the kind of forceful representation he found in painters like Picasso and Matisse, and he presented Strand's work as a clean break, even changing (truncated)