John Francis Strauss (American)

John Francis Strauss American, active 1900s Through the Camera Club of New York, which he joined in 1898, John Francis Strauss became a close associate of Alfred Stieglitz. He served on the editorial board of Camera Notes, the club journal that Stieglitz edited from 1897-1902, and then acted as associate editor of Stieglitz's new publication, Camera Work, from 1903-10. Strauss took part in exhibitions at the club and, as one of the original Fellows of the Photo-Secession, participated in many of that group's early exhibitions, including A Collection of American Pictorial Photographs, organized by Stieglitz in 1904 for the Corcoran Art Galleries, Washington, D.C. Stieglitz also reproduced one of Strauss's images in the July 1903 issue of Camera Work. M.M.