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===Early years (1903–1906)===
The inaugural issue of ''Camera Work'' was dated January 1903, but was actually mailed on 15 December 1902. In it Stieglitz set forth the mission of the new journal:
:"Photography being in the main a process in monochrome, it is oneon subtle gradations of tone and value that its artistic beauty so frequently depends. It is therefore highly necessary that reproductions of photographic work must be made with exceptional care, and discretion of the spirit of the original is to be retained, though no reproductions can do justice to the subtleties of some photographs. Such supervision will be given to the illustrations that will appear in each number of Camera Work. Only examples of such works as gives


evidence of individuality and artistic worth, regardless of school, or contains some exceptional feature of technical merit, or such as exemplifies some treatment worthy of consideration, will find recognition in these pages. Nevertheless, the Pictorial will be the dominating feature of the magazine."<ref name="Alfred1903"/>
 
In his first editorial Stieglitz expressed gratitude to a group photographers to whom he was indebted. He listed them in a specific order: [[Robert Demachy]], Will Cadby, [[Edward Steichen]], [[Gertrude Käsebier]], [[Frank Eugene]], [[James Craig Annan]], [[Clarence Hudson White|Clarence H. White]], William Dyer, [[Eva Watson-Schütze|Eva Watson]], [[Frances Benjamin Johnston]], and R. Child Baley.<ref name="Naef">{{cite book|author= Weston Naef|title=The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz: Fifty Pioneers of Modern Photography|publisher=NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art|year=1978|pages=120–134}}</ref> Over the next fourteen years he showed a decided bias by publishing many of their photographs while other talented photographers barely received notice.<ref name="ASAB"/>