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  • Taschen has just published Camera Work: The Complete Illustrations 1903-1917,with a text by Pam Roberts of the Royal Photographic Society. Color enhances the quality of these illustrations, small though they may be. Selected texts from Camera Work are reproduced in facsimile.
  • Collectors may be interestedin the December l997 catalogue issued by the Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA featuring Camera Work and other photogravures. The Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York City is another good source for this kind of material.
  • Professor Melinda Boyd Parsons of Memphis State University is writing a book length study of the Anglo-American painter Pamela Colman Smith, the first non-photographic artist to exhibit at 291.
     
  • The highly successful Pictorialism Into Modernism: The Clarence White School of Photography, with a catalogue of the same name (Rizzoli) is still on the road, ending at the Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, on April 26th, 1998.
     
  • Christian A. Peterson's exhibition, After the Photo-Secession: American Pictorial Photography, 1910-1955, with accompanying catalogue opened in Minneapolis on February 8th, 1997 and will close, after traveling to the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas on October 17th, 1999.
     
  • The New Pictorialist Society, while no longer producing a periodical, is still functioning.  This organization's publications are a key source for early techniques.
     
  • Professor Melinda Boyd Parsons of Memphis State University is writing a book length study of the Anglo-American painter Pamela Colman Smith, the first non-photographic artist to exhibit at 291.
     
  • Perry Miller Adato of WNET, New York is preparing a film biography of Alfred Stieglitz for the American Masters Series.


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