Stieglitz's Camera Work--Reprinted

[Jeremy]

After a pre-posting check with our veritable leader I thought I would make a post here on APUG about my work to have Stieglitz's Camera Work reprinted.

Well, the time has finally come and the first 4 issues are being offered to the public!

Just to give you a more detailed description of what I'm doing: I was able to gather a set of all 50 issues on loan and am in the process of scanning the issues and creating a digital master set to be uploaded to http://www.lulu.com for reprinting. With the availability of books with high quality (well, offset) reproductions of the illustrations

Seen here:

http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Stiegli...1005436&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Camera-Works-A...1005436&sr=8-2

my main concern is the text (though every page in the original is accounted for!), so the books are being printed in b&w to keep the costs down. They will be released in volumes of ~300 pages (which is 3-4 issues depending on individual issue length) with a cost of $19.99/volume.

I am asking you to spend a little bit of money and invest the time to read Stieglitz's Camera Work: Issues 1-4

If you have any questions feel free to ask them here or PM or email me privately. As all of the issues pre-date 1923 there is no copyright infringement as it is not copyrighted material, it is in the public domain (this fact was cross-checked with the Library of Congress).

(http://www.lulu.com/content/879217)

[Chazzy]

Originally Posted by Jeremy

my main concern is the text (though every page in the original is accounted for!), so the books are being printed in b&w to keep the costs down.

So the color of the original illustrations will not be reproduced???

[Jeremy]

Originally Posted by Chazzy

So the color of the original illustrations will not be reproduced???

Correct, there is zero color used in the printing of these books.

Also, the printed page looks much better than the "Preview" pages provided; I have my copy in hand and it looks much better than I had hoped for!

The illustrations are still lacking in depth, but as I stated above, the Taschen and Dover books do a much better job with the illustrations than I could do AND keep the volumes affordable. To be honest, I could make the volumes ridiculously expensive with off-set printing and still never approach the quality of the original hand-pulled photogravures.

[JG Motamedi]

Thanks Jeremy!

I have placed my order and look forward to seeing the other volumes as well as the Collodion Journal and the Phila. Photographer.

Great work.

jason

[Peter Schrager]

great idea jeremy. you is amazin!!
best, Peter

[doughowk]

Thanks for your efforts. Looking forward to getting the book.

[athanasius80]

Well there goes another paycheck. Thanks Jeremy!

[mtbbrian]

Speaking of Stieglitz..
I am reading
The Moment Of Seeing: Minor White at the CSFA, and it mentions something that I beleive is attributed to Stieglitz.
"The Theory of Equivalants"
Is that something Stieglitz came up with or was it someone else?
I haven't found any good information on this theory, that is why I am asking here.
Brian

[Kerik]

Excellent work, J. I'll be ordering one.

[RobertP]

here here...I'll be placing an order also