ALFRED STIEGLITZ (1864–1946) and PAUL STRAND (1890–1976)
ALFRED STIEGLITZ (1864–1946) and PAUL STRAND (1890–1976)
ALFRED STIEGLITZ (1864–1946) and PAUL STRAND (1890–1976)
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ALFRED STIEGLITZ (1864–1946) and PAUL STRAND (1890–1976)
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ALFRED STIEGLITZ (1864–1946) and PAUL STRAND (1890–1976)

Camera Work, Number 49/50

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ALFRED STIEGLITZ (1864–1946) and PAUL STRAND (1890–1976)
Camera Work, Number 49/50
New York: Alfred Stieglitz, 1917. Journal illustrated with eleven photogravures after photographs by Paul Strand. Signed, dated and inscribed by Stieglitz to Marie Rapp in pencil on the front endpaper. Each image approximately 9 x 6 1/2 in. (22.8 x 16.5 cm.) or inverse. Each sheet 11 3/4 x 8 1/8 in. (29.8 x 20.6 cm.). Texts by Paul Strand and William Murrell Fisher. Together with original printed gray wrapper.
Provenance
The Collection of Marie Rapp, Stieglitz's secretary at 291 gallery from late 1911 to 1917;
Sotheby's, New York, October 7, 1998, lot 52;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.

Lot Essay

The plates are as follows:

Bowls
Porch Shadows
White Fence
Man with Sign
Street Vendor
Man in a Derby
Portrait, Washington Square
Man, Five Points Square
Blind Woman
New York (From the Viaduct)
From the Viaduct, New York

Stieglitz was first introduced to Marie Rapp in December 1911, and thereafter Rapp worked as the secretary at 291 gallery until its closing in 1917. The content of this inscription from Stieglitz to Rapp reveals a close relationship between the two. Paul Rosenfeld once wrote of the 291 years that it 'seemed to demand that you be yourself utterly–for in this place nothing but the final self, that utter, inner design of soul was revered'.

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