[Halftones from photographs by Alfred Stieglitz and F.P. Cembrano, Jr. in The American amateur photographer]

Barnes, Catharine Weed · 1893

The American amateur photographer "was the start of Alfred Stieglitz's editorial career: he joined this publication as an editor in July of this year. He began to change the direction of this magazine by becoming more "selective" in what would be included as good photography. Two of his pictures are reproduced in very interesting ways: one, a portrait, is a half-tone with dull inks in two slightly different colors, so beautifully done that when first seen it could easily pass as a fine collotype; the second is a half-tone of cows printed in a maroon ink over a golden yellow tint block. I believe this shows that while he was at the Photochrome Engraving Co. he was actively trying ideas in printing of photographs to his high standards, but using the half-tone to do it..."--Hanson Collection catalog, pp. 117-118