Alfred Stieglitz, “Our Illustrations,” Camera Work 30 (April 1910), p. Sadakichi Hartmann, “Frank Eugene: Painter-Photographer,” The Photographic Times, No. Through his own dedicated photographic work over the course of a half century, the journals he edited and published (such as Camera Notes and Camera Work ), and the groundbreaking exhibitions he organized at his New York galleries. Eugene is in the technique of photography.” Yet Stieglitz applauded Eugene’s work, especially his platinum prints on Japanese tissue paper, and included him in exhibitions and in several issues of Camera Work. Considered as a whole, the Stieglitz Collection reflects the enormous diversity of Alfred Stieglitz’s activities. “It is a great pity,” Hartmann wrote, “that the majority of artistic photographers are as deficient in artistic temperament as Mr. The critic Sadakichi Hartmann called him a “painter-photographer” in an underhanded compliment, praising his composition while slighting his technical skills. It has been called 'consummately intellectual',1 'by far the most beautiful of all photographic magazines',2 and 'a portrait of an age in. having reproduced excerpts of the artist’s seminal thesis Concerning the Spiritual in Art in a 1912 volume of Camera Work, his. It presented high-quality photogravures by some of the most important photographers in the world, with the goal to establish photography as a fine art. Alfred Stieglitz, photographer, publisher, gallerist, and impresario, made unparalleled contributions to the introduction of modern art in America and gave unequivocal support to young American modernist painters. He and Stieglitz remained close friends, mutual admirers, and artistic colleagues.Įugene was acclaimed for incorporating painterly techniques into his photographs and photogravures, which were largely confined to portraits and nudes. Camera Work was a quarterly photographic journal published by Alfred Stieglitz from 1903 to 1917. In 1906, Eugene moved to Germany, where he continued to paint, photograph, and work in other media. In 1900, Stieglitz dedicated an issue of Camera Notes to Eugene, and he was elected to the Brotherhood of the Linked Ring, a Pictorialist photographic society in London two years later, he was among the founding members of the Photo-Secession. Returning to New York, he took up photography to aid in the execution of his painted portraits, and by 1899 he had advanced sufficiently to exhibit 77 photographs at the New York Camera Club. Born Frank Eugene Smith to German immigrants in New York, Frank Eugene (as he was professionally known) trained as a painter at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in Munich.
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