Alfred Stieglitz - Camera Work: The Complete Illustrations, 1903-1917

Lot Description ALFRED STIEGLITZ, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER (1864-1946) a complete set, including Numbers 1-49/50 (1903-1917), (April 1906) and (August 1912) and (June 1913); dated January 22, 1922, inscribed 'To Litchfield from AS '291' and annotated 'If you ask a question - and the wisest in the world answer you - remember your question - If it be vital to yourself - will be but half answered - The remaining half you will have to furnish yourself - not in words - but what is actually that thing - yourself. I asked a question in May 1914 - Today I know the meaning of Friends - To one seeking whole answers' by Stieglitz in pencil (on the flyleaf, Volume 47); plates throughout in photogravure, halftone, color halftone, collotype and letterpress of works by Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Karl F. Struss, George H. Seeley, Clarence H. White, Robert Demachy, Gertrude Käsebier, Heinrich Kuehn, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Anne W. Brigman, Baron Adolph DeMeyer and others; includes reproductions of works by artists exhibited at '291' such as Picasso, Cézanne, Matisse, Picabia and De Zayas; original grey paper wrappers Provenance From the artist; to Donald Litchfield, to Consuelo Kanaga; acquired 1980s