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{{short description|Quarterly photographic journal (1903–1917)}}
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[[Image:Camera Work cover.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Cover of ''Camera Work'', No 2, 1903. Cover design by [[Edward Steichen]].]]
 
'''''Camera Work''''' was a quarterly [[photography|photographic]] journal published by [[Alfred Stieglitz]] from 1903 to 1917. It is known for its manypresented high-quality [[photogravure]]s by some of the most important photographers in the world, andwith its editorialthe purposegoal to establish photography as a fine art. It has been called "consummately intellectual",<ref>{{cite book|author=Andrew Roth|title=The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century|publisher=NY: PPP Editions|year=2001|page=7}}</ref> "by far the most beautiful of all photographic magazines",<ref name="ASAB">{{cite book|author=Richard Whelan|title=Alfred Stieglitz: A Biography|url=https://archive.org/details/alfredstieglitzb00whelrich|url-access=registration|publisher=NY: Little, Brown|year=1995|pages=[https://archive.org/details/alfredstieglitzb00whelrich/page/189 189–223] }}</ref> and "a portrait of an age [in which] the artistic sensibility of the nineteenth century was transformed into the artistic awareness of the present day."<ref name="Green">{{cite book|author=Jonathan Green|title=Camera Work: A Critical Anthology|publisher=NY: Aperture|year=1973|pages=i, 12–23 }}</ref>
 
==Background==