Cover of Camera Work 1, 1903. Camera Work was a quarterly journal issued from 1903 to 1917 that was devoted primarily to “the furtherance of modern photography” at a time when photographs were not viewed by most as a serious art form. Conceived and published by Alfred Stieglitz, Camera Work was renowned not only for featuring and discussing pictures by the leading art photographers of the day-Edward Steichen, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Gertrude Käsebier, Clarence White, and Paul Strand, among others-but also for the lavish quality of its plates, many of which were painstakingly executed in photogravure.