Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1908 (Heft 21))

OUR COLOR NUMBER

N this issue of Camera Work we had hoped to announce definitely
the date of publication of our Color Number. An unfortunate chain
of circumstances has prevented the firm of Bruckmann, of Munich,
from keeping their promise to let us have complete editions before
December first. Word has reached us that the firm has had much trouble
in the making of the reproductions; three sets of blocks were made before
anything satisfactory was secured. Even at that, so far, only three proofs have
reached us. Proof of the fourth subject is not yet to hand. In view of this
fact we can not possibly set a date for the publication of the proposed number.
The Bruckmanns, one of the very best firms of the kind, are not of the type
that believe in the ccgood-enough,, and in ccthe public won't know the dif-
ference,” and in consequence they are undoubtedly trying to do justice to
themselves, to the Autochromes of Steichen, and to Camera Work. It
must be remembered that to reproduce these transparencies with any
adequate degree of quality and precision is still a matter of initial experi-
ment. The realization of this fact bridles our impatience. We hope a
similar spirit will move our readers as far as we are concerned. The
number will be announced as soon as the ordered edition is in the New York
Custom-house.—Editor.


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