Camera Notes

Article summary

Camera Notes was a photographic journal published by the Camera Club of New York from 1897 to 1903. It was edited for most of that time by photographer Alfred Stieglitz and was considered the most significant American photography journal of its time. It is valuable today both as a record of photographic aesthetics of the time and for its many high-quality photogravures by photographers such as Stieglitz, James Craig Annan, F. Holland Day, Robert Demachy, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Gertrude Kasebier and Clarence H. White.

Key claims

1. publication date: 1897 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. publication date: 1897 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
3. publication date: 1900 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
4. publication date: 1897 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
5. publication date: 1993 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
2. The record states that the publication date is "1897". What evidence would count against this claim?
3. The record states that the publication date is "1897". What evidence would count against this claim?
4. The record states that the publication date is "1900". What evidence would count against this claim?
5. The record states that the publication date is "1897". What evidence would count against this claim?
6. The record states that the publication date is "1993". What evidence would count against this claim?
7. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
8. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1345293081