Feb 14, 2007 - Sale 2103

Sale 2103 - Lot 14

Price Realized: $ 60,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 60,000 - $ 90,000
CAMERA WORK
Numbers 1 through 22, the Steichen Supplement, Special Number August 1912 (Matisse and Picasso) and Special Number June 1913. Together, a total of 25 issues. Edited by Alfred Stieglitz. Includes multiple works by stieglitz, steichen, coburn, white, and other important figures associated with the Photo-Secession. 4to, original gray wrappers, condition generally very good, with chips and tears. 1903-1908, 1912-1913
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Additional Details

A partial and consecutive run of "Camera Work," the first American art journal to position photography as a medium of creative expression, edited and published by Alfred Stieglitz. The lot features Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, the Steichen Supplement, and Special Numbers August 1912 and June 1913. Highlights include Kaesebier's "Blessed Art Thou Among Women," White's "Ring Toss," Stieglitz's "The Street--Design for a Poster," "The Flat-Iron" and "Winter-Fifth Avenue," and Steichen's "Moonlight: The Pond" and "The Flatiron--Evening."

The plates, especially the tissue photogravures, are in very good condition overall. The issues are nearly complete, with a total of only 8 missing plates, including: Kaesebier's "The Red Man" and Dugmore's "A Study in Natural History" (January 1903), Steichen's "Judgment of Paris--A Landscape Arrangement" (April 1903), Coburn's "Study--Miss R." and Evans's "In Sure and Certain Hope" (October 1904), Herzog's "The Tale of Isolde" (October 1905), Steichen's "Poster Lady" and "Road into the Valley--Moonrise" (April 1906).

There are duplicate copies of Henneberg's "Villa Torlonia" (January 1906), one which is in the issue and one which has been laid-in.
Steichen's luminous "Cover Design" (April 1906), has also been laid-in to the issue.