10 Facts About Joseph Keiley

Joseph Turner Keiley was an early 20th-century photographer, writer and art critic.

Joseph Keiley was a close associate of photographer Alfred Stieglitz and was one of the founding members of the Photo-Secession.

Joseph Keiley began photographing in the mid-1890s and met fellow New York photographer Gertrude Kasebier, who at that time was engaged in photographing American Indians who were performing in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Joseph Keiley photographed some of the same subjects, and in 1898 nine of his prints were exhibited in the Philadelphia Photographic Salon.

At that time Stieglitz was serving as the Vice President of the Club and editor of the Club's journal Camera Notes, and Joseph Keiley soon became his closest ally.

Stieglitz asked him to become Associate Editor of the journal, and over the next few years Joseph Keiley was one of its most prolific writers, contributing articles on aesthetics, exhibition reviews and technical articles.

Joseph Keiley had several of his photographs published in the journal.

When Stieglitz started Camera Work in 1903 he asked Joseph Keiley to become associate editor, and for the next eleven years he was second only to Stieglitz in the details of publishing the journal.

Joseph Keiley contributed dozens of essays, reviews and technical articles, and he advised Stieglitz about promising new photographers from Europe.

Joseph Keiley had seven gravures published in Camera Work, one in 1903 and six in 1907.