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Camera Work: Making a Medium

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April 25, 2018–June 24, 2018
Rosedale Gallery

Arcadia Exhibitions is pleased to present “Camera Work: Making a Medium”. Sixty years after the invention of photography, the first issue of Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly was published in 1903. American photographer Alfred Stieglitz edited the journal and published 48 issues over the next 14 years, each containing work by the period’s preeminent art photographers and critics.

installation view from Camera Work: Making a Medium
installation view from Camera Work: Making a Medium
installation view from Camera Work: Making a Medium
installation view from Camera Work: Making a Medium
three people sitting at a table during a gallery talk
installation view from Camera Work: Making a Medium
installation view from Camera Work: Making a Medium
installation view from Camera Work: Making a Medium
installation view from Camera Work: Making a Medium
three people sitting at a table during a gallery talk
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Exhibition view, "Camera Work: Making a Medium", photo: Sam Fritch

Exhibition view, "Camera Work: Making a Medium", photo: Sam Fritch

Exhibition view, "Camera Work: Making a Medium", photo: Sam Fritch

Paul Strand
(American, 1890-1976)
Telegraph Poles and opposite page with imprint
Photogravure
Published in Number 48, October 1916

(Left to right) Tamsen Wojtanowski, Adam Hess, and Rachel Leonard, Photo: Dana McCabe.

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Exhibition view, "Camera Work: Making a Medium", photo: Sam Fritch

Exhibition view, "Camera Work: Making a Medium", photo: Sam Fritch

Exhibition view, "Camera Work: Making a Medium", photo: Sam Fritch

Paul Strand
(American, 1890-1976)
Telegraph Poles and opposite page with imprint
Photogravure
Published in Number 48, October 1916

(Left to right) Tamsen Wojtanowski, Adam Hess, and Rachel Leonard, Photo: Dana McCabe.

Through its meticulous design, high-quality prints, and cultured essays, Camera Work galvanized an international photography movement known as the Photo-Secession. It also helped to revolutionize prevailing perceptions of photography as a purely documentary medium by demonstrating that it could be used to create fine art.

“Camera Work: Making a Medium” examines how Stieglitz made the case for photography as an artistic medium by illuminating the design of the journal and the evolution of the photographic processes and styles it showcased. The installation, which includes four issues of Camera Work and 18 prints from its pages, marks the public unveiling of items donated to Arcadia University by Marilyn Steinbright in 2016. The exhibition was created over the spring semester of 2018 by students in Make an Exhibition, an art history seminar course.

a group photo of the students and professor involved Camera Work: Making a Medium

The students and faculty involved in the Make An Exhibition seminar course from left to right: Kat Faulkner, Elizabeth Ferrell (professor), Ashley Selig, Caroline Patterson, Rachel Geisinger, John McGowan, Kalee Shomo, Sydney Mount, Julianna LoMonaco, Tessa Paige, Rachel Leonard. Photo by Dana McCabe.

Panel Discussion
April 25, 2019
A panel discussion with Tamsen Wojtanoski and Adam Hess will be held in the University Commons Great Room beginning at 6:30 PM with a reception to follow. Both events are free and open to the public.

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