This book was among the very first to win the George Wittenborn Memorial Award, sponsored by the Art Libraries Society of America and presented annually for outstanding North American publications in the visual arts and architecture. But that was back in 1974. Although it still remains an estimable publication, it has been completely superseded in the intervening years by Dover's Camera Work A Pictorial Guide, or, even better (but more expensive on the used-book market) Taschen's Camera work - the complete illustrations 1903 - 1917. Both of these offer every single photograph that was published in the historic periodical Camera Work, edited by the legendary Alfred Stieglitz. Jonathan Green's anthology contains somewhere around 20% of the over 500 photographs published in the journal; and, frankly, the quality of reproduction is nothing to go wild over. Some of the articles (written by such critics as George Bernard Shaw and such practitioners as Paul Strand) are reprinted here, but these are primarily historical curiosities, relics of an era when photography was struggling to gain acceptance as an art form. Fortunately, that question was settled long ago.. ( )