Camera Notes: A Quarterly. The Offical Organ of The Camera Club of N.Y.

Founded by Alfred Stieglitz and thoroughly suffused with his energy and enthusiasm for all that was progressive in creative photography at the time, Camera Notes was a kind of dry run for the much better known periodical Camera Work that he started after resigning from Camera Notes in 1902. During his five years as editor, he carried out what he proposed in the first issue, "to publish with each number two photogravures representing some important achievement in pictorial photography; not necessarily the work of home talent, but chosen from the best material the world affords. ... articles of interest, illustrated by half-tone prints, will from time to time appear. ... it is intended to take cognizance also of what is going on in the photographic world at large,... to keep our members in touch with everything connected with the progress and elevation of photography." Camera Notes, vol. 1, no. 1 (July 1897), p. 3.