The bookseller Bernard Quaritch Ltd has a copy of Alfred Stieglitz's landmark publication Camera Work on offer. Number 37 contains nine photogravures on Japan tissue were made by the Scottish photographer James Craig Annan (1864–1946) from works by Hill & Adamson. Camera Work was published between 1903 and 1917 during which time fifty issues were made. The Annan number is priced at £2200.
See: https://www.quaritch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Quaritch-Summer-Miscellany-2025.pdf#page=70
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These really are spectacular reproductions.
I can't say the same about the Introduction to this article where, having said that 'the photographer must set up the composition, then wait for the right moment to capture', D. O. Hill alone was given the credit for all the photographs. And not only here but on every occasion the magazine mentioned the calotypes! The only mention of Robert Adamson in all the editions of Camera Work came in the 11th (1905) where he was described as "a qualified assistant in the technical manipulation."
"Annan had caught Stieglitz’s attention in 1896 in The Amateur Photographer,
where he gave advice on using the new hand camera, which did not make
use of a tripod. Stieglitz later drew upon Annan’s writing in The American
Annual of Photography the following year, in which he agreed that the
photographer must set up the composition, then wait for the right moment
to capture. In this number of Camera Work, Annan is also praised: ‘It is
also rare good fortune that Mr. Annan, while himself one of the pioneers of
pictorial photography and second to none in his admiration of Hill’s work, is
also a master of the photogravure process’.