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Midst Steam and Smoke Adamson, Prescott (American, 1866-1933)

Title
Midst Steam and Smoke
Artist
Adamson, Prescott (American, 1866-1933)
Publication
Camera Work V
Date
1904
Process
Photogravure
Atelier
Photochrome Engraving Company, New York
Image Size
13.3 x 18.5 cm

Reproduced / Exhibited

Hartmann, Sadakichi. Landscape and Figure Composition. New York: The Baker and Taylor Company, 1910. fig. 58

Homer, William I, Catherine Johnson, and Alfred Stieglitz. Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession, 1902. London: Penguin Putnam, 2002.

Kruse, Margret. Kunstphotographie Um 1900: D. Sammlung Ernst Juhl; Hamburg: Museum für Kunst u. Gewerbe, 1989 pl. 2