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Title: Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly - two special issues Author: ** Place: New York Publisher: Alfred Stieglitz Date: 1912-1913 Description: 2 issues. Includes: Special Number MDCCCCXII (August, 1912). "Henri Matisse" [and] "Pablo Picasso." With essays by Gertrude Stein. 30, [6] ad pp. + 14 photograph plates of artwork (2 photographs by Stieglitz). * Special Number MDCCCCXIII (June, 1913). 59,[12] ad pp. + 8 photograph plates of artwork. Photographs of art by Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Picasso, including his famous portrait of Gertrude Stein. Both are 11¾x8, wrappers with yapp edges. Two Special Issues that, although published separately from Camera Work's regular run, were intended to be complimentary and companion works. They discuss and photographically illustrate modern art. Gertrude's essays on Matisse and Picasso were her first printed works. Kellner, 1988, p.266. Lot Amendments Condition: Original wrapper edges are creased with a few tears (as to be expected), both spines have tears that have been repaired with glue; contents are fine. Item number: 208726