The Camera Viewed. Writings on twentieth-century photography.Volume 1: Photography Before World War II.

Contains the following articles :
1. Jonathan Green: Introduction to Camera Work: A Critical Anthology (1973) ;
2. Alfred Stieglitz: Looking for Mr. Stieglitz (1940-1941) - Random Thoughts (1942) ;
3. Georgia O'Keeffe: Stieglitz: His Pictures Collected Him (1949) ;
4. Carl Sandburg: Steichen the Photographer, an excerpt (1920) ;
5. Marius De Zayas: Photography (1913) - Photography and Artistic Photography (1913) ;
6. Paul Strand: Painting and Photography (1963) ;
7. Calvin Tomkins: Paul Strand: Look to the things around you (1974) ;
8. Edward Weston: Photographic Art, an excerpt (1942) ;
9. Andy Grundberg: Edward Weston Rethought (1975) ;
10. Charles Millard: The Photography of Charles Sheeler (1968) ;
11. Leslie Katz: Interview with Walker Evans (1971) ;
12. Robert J. Doherty, F. Jack Hurley, Jay M. Kloner and Carl G. Ryant: Roy Stryker on FSA, SONJ, J&L (1972) ;
13. Laslo Moholy-Nagy: A New Instrument of Vision (1932) - Photography in a Flash (1936) ;
14. Caroline Fawkes: Photography and Moholy-Nagy's Do-It-Yourself Aesthetic (1975) ;
15. John Fraser: Atget and the City, an excerpt (1968) ;
16. John Fuller: Atget and Man Ray in the Context of Surrealism (1976/77) ;
17. Man Ray: Photography is Not Art (1943) ;
18. Joe Deal: Horst on Fashion Photography, An Interview with Horst P. Horst (1975) ;
19. Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, an excerpt (1936) ;