Alfred Stieglitz(1864-1946) was born in New Jersey in 1864. He's earned a title, 'Father of Modern Photography', by playing main role in improving the status of photography from the mere pictorial photography copying pictures to photography as fine art, making photography an independent art genre.

Alfred Stieglitz created(established) Photo Secession in Feb. of 1902 to help the artistic side of pictorial photography be acknowledged. He led the Photo Secession movement, aimed to recover the pure mechanical 'record-ability' the photography has, and through it all, called for the correct understanding of the straight photo based on photographic reality. Also, he produced Camera Work, a photography journal that worked as the official bulletin of the Photo Secession. Camera Work continued its publication from 1903 to 1917, during which 50 editions were published.

The Camera Work had effects not only on photography but on the whole 20th century Art culture as well and it still enjoys the recognition for being the experimental art review magazine for its continual publications of the essays and reviews from some of the most influential intellectuals of the time. It did not only include the works of Photo Secession photographers but also included the works of main photographers in Europe such as Frederick H. Evans and Robert DeMachy. Camera Work also helped the detailed recording of the trend of pictorial thought possible by introducing the works of the masters of European Arts, including Rodin and Picasso, to New York Art world and had a huge influence on modern art through it all.

Camera Work is surely the 'Dream Magazine' published by tipping each photograph printed through the Photogravure Printing technique onto Japanese tissue by hand. Photogravure Print, one of the finest photography printing techniques, is a printing technique in which the photographs are printed by hand using high quality paper and achival ink and has a very sensual velvet texture.

With the helps of Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz opened Gallery 291 on fifth avenuein 1905 and exhibited a distinct and avant garde-like modern photographs and art works from Europe and Africa along with the works of Photo Secession photographers. Gallery 291 is a gallery that brought the revolution in American art world and it made a lot of contribution in helping photography earn acknowledgment as one genre of art.

Through the interior of the exhibition, the Gallery Lumiere tried to imitate the exhibition of the Gallery 291(Little Gallery) of New York of 1905, which was the founding location of the modern arts and called by the nickname, Little Gallery. By exhibiting the original copy of Camera Work and the vintage photogravure inside it along with the analogue Vintage Prints that shows the process of photography from 120 years ago, we will show the dramatic movement of photography from its beginning stage as the pictorial photography to the modern photography. This exhibition will help the audience understand that the photographs are not only capable of expressing the facts but that It has a very artistic territory in which the emotions and characters can be expressed.