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Edward Steichen
Edward Jean Steichen was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter and curator and a pioneer of fashion photography. His gown images for the magazine Art et Décoration in 1911 were the first modern fashion photographs to be published. From 1923 to 1938, Steichen served as chief photographer for the Condé Nast magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair, designating him the "greatest living portrait photo…
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culture · Luxembourgish-American photographer (1879–1973) · photographer · painter · war photographer · curator · fashion photographer · draftsperson · film director · exhibition curator · art historian · artist · also Edward Steichen, Edward Jean Steichen, Éduard Jean Steichen, Edward J. Steichen, Edward J Steichen, Edowādo Sutaiken
Born 27 March 1879 · Died 25 March 1973 · Q313899
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Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. [It is] a major force in explaining man to man.
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2026· 3 entries
The New York Times: Edward Steichen
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Democrat and Chronicle: Edward Steichen’s other masterpiece bloomed in a garden
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2024· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: The Early Photographic Experimentation of Edward Steichen
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2022· 2 entries
MutualArt.com: Edward Steichen (1879-1973) Flatiron, 1905
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When it was sold for $12,000,000, at Christie's New York – well above the original estimate of $2,000,000-$3,000,000
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2018· 1 entry
“I consider Steichen a very great artist and the leading, the greatest photographer of the time. Before him, nothing conclusive had been achieved.”
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2014· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Edward Steichen's War Years
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2007· 3 entries
insider.si.edu: Edward Steichen : lives in photography / Todd Brandow and William A. Ewing ; with contributions by A.D. Coleman ... [et al.]
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Time: Looking Back on Edward Steichen
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Time: Edward Steichen Lives in Photography
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2003· 1 entry
The Family of Man photographic collection was added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in recognition of its historical value
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1973· 2 entries
Died 1973-03-25.
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“Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. [It is] a major force in explaining man to man.”
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1970· 1 entry
An evening show was presented in Arles during The Rencontres d'Arles festival: Edward Steichen, photographe by Martin Boschet
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1968· 1 entry
The Edward Steichen Archive was established in MoMA's Department of Photography
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1967· 1 entry
Steichen, as a still-active member of the copyright committee of the American Society of Magazine Photographers, wrote a submission to the U
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1963· 2 entries
Steichen was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Lyndon B. Johnson (1963).
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1960· 1 entry
Aged 80, Steichen married 27-year-old Joanna Taub and remained married to her until his death, two days before his 94th birthday
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1959· 1 entry
Started her career as an assistant to the director, Steichen, and who became Curator of Photography in 1962, retiring in 1968
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1947· 1 entry
Steichen was appointed Director of Photography until 1962, later assisted by Grace M
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1946· 1 entry
Wrote a letter to Stephen Clark (copied to Newhall) to express his disappointment over Steichen's hiring for the new position of director; "To supplant Beaumont Newhall, who has made such a great contribution to the art
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1944· 1 entry
Directed the war documentary The Fighting Lady, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 17th Academy Awards
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1942· 1 entry
Steichen curated for the Museum of Modern Art the exhibition Road to Victory, five duplicates of which toured the world
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1936· 1 entry
Had been the subject of his first exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, and the only flower exhibition ever held there
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1923· 1 entry
For the extraordinary salary of $35,000 (equivalent to over $500,000 in 2019 value)
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1922· 1 entry
Clara and Edward Steichen eventually divorced in 1922.
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1919· 1 entry
Clara Steichen sued Marion Beckett for having an affair with her husband, but was unable to prove her claims
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1917· 1 entry
Whereupon Clara returned to the United States
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1915· 1 entry
Clara Steichen returned to France with her daughter Kate, staying in their house in the Marne in spite of the war
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1914· 1 entry
Clara accused her husband of having an affair with artist Marion H
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1911· 2 entries
Were the first modern fashion photographs to be published
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Lucien Vogel, the publisher of Jardin des Modes and La Gazette du Bon Ton, challenged Steichen to promote fashion as a fine art through photography
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1907· 1 entry
Candidly photographed dazzlingly-dressed ladies at the Longchamp Racecourse
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1905· 1 entry
Stieglitz and Steichen created the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, in what had been Steichen's portrait studio; it eventually became known as the 291 Gallery after its address
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1904· 2 entries
They had two daughters, Mary Rose Steichen (1904–1998) and Charlotte "Kate" Rodina Steichen (1908–1988).
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And was one of the earliest in the United States to use the Autochrome Lumière process
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1902· 1 entry
When Stieglitz was formulating what would become Camera Work, he asked Steichen to design the logo for the magazine with a custom typeface
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1900· 1 entry
And signed the naturalization papers as Edward J
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1899· 1 entry
Steichen's photographs were exhibited in the second Philadelphia Photographic Salon
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1894· 1 entry
At fifteen, Steichen began attending Pio Nono College, a Catholic boys' high school, where his artistic talents were noticed
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1880· 1 entry
With Marie Steichen bringing the infant Éduard along after Jean-Pierre had settled in Hancock in Michigan's Upper Peninsula copper country
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1879· 2 entries
In a small house in the village of Bivange, Luxembourg, the son of Jean-Pierre and Marie Kemp Steichen
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Born 1879-03-27.
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