advertisers reading, "You press the button and we'll do with the rest". This idea sickened Stieglitz. To Stieglitz it seemed like rotten sportsmanship (Peterson 10). Stieglitz wanted to make photography an art so Stieglitz decided, to do something about it. Camera Notes (1897- 1903) was the most significant American photographic journal of its time (see pict.4). Published monthly by the Camera Club of New York and edited for most of its life by Alfred Stieglitz, the journal embodied major changes for american photography in general and to Stieglitz' s career in particular. Camera Notes signaled the beginning of the movement of artistic photography in the United States. Over the course of the six years that Camera Notes was published, Stieglitz witnessed the establishment of an American standard for artistic photography and the "dissolution of his faith in members" of popular camera clubs. Camera Notes ushered in not only a new century, but also an entirely different attitude toward photography (Peterson 35). This journal represented a noble effort on the part of Stieglitz to work within the territory of the American Camera Club movement (Norman 67). The journal included a number of articles and photographic illustrations he believed would inspire his readers to higher levels of picture making and greater depths of artistic meaning (Peterson 10). Later Stieglitz resigned from being the editor of Camera Club because of others accused him of rule or run tactics. Stieglitz then created his own magazine. Stieglitz had a...
