Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1916 (Heft 48))

OUR ILLUSTRATIONS
Six Plates in this number of Camera Work are devoted to Photographs
by Paul Strand. The photogravures were reproduced directly from Strand’s
11 x 14 negatives. Naturally in the reduction of size, a great deal of the power
and some of the luminosity of the original prints are lost. It could not be
otherwise. Some of the print quality too is lacking in the gravures, excellent
as they are, for Strand’s originals are full of real print quality.
The other Plates are by Arthur Allen Lewis, the New York etcher
and wood-engraver who occasionally photographs; “Portrait,” by Francis
Bruguiere, who, originally a pupil of Eugene’s when Eugene lived in New York,
is now an enthusiastic practitioner of photography in San Francisco; “The
Cat,” by Frank Eugene, the American who is now professor of Pictorial
Photography at the Leipsic Art Museum, and whose name and work are well
known to the readers of Camera Work. With the exception of the Bruguiere
and Frank Eugene photogravures, which were made before the War, by F.
Bruckmann Verlag, of Munich, the photogravures in this Number were made
by the Manhattan Photogravure Company, of New York.
For the sake of record we are also incorporating in Camera Work three
pages of half-tones, six photographs illustrative of the methods employed in
presenting work at “291.”

“291”—A NEW PUBLICATION
“291” is always experimenting. During 1915-16, amongst other experi-
ments, was a series with type-setting and printing. The experiments were
based upon work which had been done with type and printers’ ink, and paper,
by Apollinaire in Paris, and by the Futurists in Italy. No work in this spirit
had as yet been attempted in America. The outcome of those American
experiments has been a portfolio, consisting of twelve numbers of a publica-
tion called “291.” The size of the sheets approximate 12 x 20 inches. Two
editions were printed, one, the ordinary, on heavy white paper, of a thousand
copies; the other, an edition of one hundred printed on very heavy Japan
vellum. With the exception of the one picture in type by Apollinaire, all
the matter and all the pictures in this publication have appeared nowheres
else. One number is devoted to photography, and includes a Japan vellum
proof of “The Steerage” by Alfred Stieglitz. The new typography has
already a name: “Psychotype, an art which consists in making the typo-
graphical characters participate in the expression of the thoughts and in the
painting of the states of soul, no more as conventional symbols but as signs
having a significance in themselves.”
The chief contributors to this publication are Marius De Zayas, Francis
Picabia, Paul B. Haviland, J. B. Kerfoot, Katharine N. Rhoades, Agnes Ernst
Meyer, Pablo Picasso, Max Jacob (Paris), John Marin, A. Walkowitz, Eduard
J. Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Apollinaire.
The price of the portfolio with box of the ordinary edition is $ 12.00. Of
the De Luxe Edition, $35.00.

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