ALFRED STIEGLITZ, Editor and Publisher

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ALFRED STIEGLITZ, Editor and Publisher

Camera Work, Number 36 (October, 1911); and
Camera Work, Number 47 (January, 1915)

2 issues. The first signed in pencil on the front free endpaper; the second inscribed, signed and dated Dec. 17 '26 in pencil with an extensive prose poem by Stieglitz on the front free endpaper. Number 36 complete as published with 16 photogravures of works by Stieglitz including The City of Ambition, The Steerage, Spring Showers and others. Number 47, the What is '291'? issue contains essays by artists, associates and colleagues who responded to Stieglitz's call for entries. Contributors include Mabel Dodge, Francis Bruguière, Paul Haviland, Marsden Hartley, Arthur B. Davies, Eugene Meyer, Jr., Man Ray, Marie J. Rapp, Eduard J. Steichen and others. (2)

Lot Essay

The inscription in Number 47 reads:
To the Young Woman -
A morning in Room 303 -
A Young Woman wants one
of my New York photographs -
I haven't any -
I wonder why does she
seek one of those photographs.
I wonder why I haven't
any. -
If I were photographing
would the Young Woman be
seeking the photograph?
"What is '291'?" -
And there is Room 303.
A morning in the Room.
-Alfred Stieglitz
Dec. 17/26.