Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1909 (Heft 25))

OUR ILLUSTRATIONS

RS. Annie W. Brigman, of Oakland, California, has during the
past few years gained a prominent place amongst American
camera workers. Undoubted talent, an unbounded enthusiasm
and a love for all that is beautiful are the qualities which have
enabled her to gain this position. The first five gravures in this book will
give the reader of Camera Work an adequate conception of her
photographic achievement. Mrs. Brigman’s printing medium for most of
her work is bromide and her originals are usually moderate enlargements
made from small film negatives. In order to correct a false impression
which has gone abroad, we might add that these negatives are not produced
in a “studio fitted up with papier-mache trees and painted backgrounds,”
but have been taken in the open, in the heart of the wilds of California.
The plates of Mr. Frank Eugene’s two pictures, <c Portrait—Mr.
Alfred Stieglitz,” and “Lady of Charlotte,” were made from this painter-
photographer’s negatives taken some ten years ago. The original prints are
in platinum. A future number of Camera Work will be devoted
entirely to Eugene’s photographs. For the past few years Mr. Eugene has
been sojourning in Munich, where he has met with great success as photog-
rapher and teacher. In our estimation of his work, he certainly belongs
among the few “big men” in photography, if any such there be.
Of the remaining plates in this issue, one is by Miss Ema Spencer, of
Newark, Ohio, and the other by Mr. C. Yarnall Abbott, of Philadelphia.
They like the other seven in this number are photogravures made from
original negatives.


THE WHITE BOOK
We beg to call our readers’ attention to the Clarence H. White Book
which we are about to publish. As a piece of original bookmaking with
genuine value, this volume will make a fitting companion to the Steichen Book
which we published three years ago. For further particulars see our ad-
vertising pages or address the publisher.

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