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LEE GALLERY TO SHOW ‘CAMERA WORK’ JAN 3

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WINCHESTER, MASS. — Lee Gallery will exhibit “Camera Work and other Gravures by Stieglitz, Steichen, Kasebier, White and others,” January 3–February 28.

Alfred Stieglitz founded the photo magazine Camera Work in 1903 and acted as its guiding force until its last year of production in 1917. At the time, the place of photography in the art world was unsure. Stieglitz made it his mission to have photography recognized as art using Camera Work  and his 291 Gallery as platforms from which to make his argument.

Stieglitz assembled a group of photographers with similar tastes and sympathies.

Edward Steichen, Gertrude Kasebier, Clarence White and Paul Strand are just some of the photographers featured in Camera Work. Steichen’s “J. Piermont Morgan” and Kasebier’s “The Red Man” show why they were renowned for their portraiture. White was very skilled in his use of light as evident in “Ring Toss” and counts among others Margaret Bourke-White and Dorothea Lange as students.

Lee Gallery is at Nine Mount Vernon Street. The gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10 am to 5:30 pm and by appointment. For information, 781-729-7445 or www.leegallery.com.