Edward Steichen Lives in Photography

Name: Edward Steichen Lives in Photography
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ISBN: 9780393066265

ISBN-10: 0393066266

ISBN-13: 9780393066265

Edition: 2008

Authors: Todd Brandow, William A. Ewing, Catherine Coleman, Ronald J. Gedrim, Nathalie Herschdorfer

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By far the most lavish, thoughtfully selected, and beautifully produced book of Steichen's work. Edward Steichen (1879-1973) is unquestionably one of the most prolific, influential, and indeed controversial names in the history of photography. He was admired by many for his achievements as a fine-art photographer, while impressing countless others with the force of his commercial accomplishments. The influence of his legendary exhibition,The Family of Man, is still felt. This volume traces Steichen's career trajectory from his Pictoralist beginnings to his time with Condé Nast through his directorship of photography at the Museum of Modern Art. Hundreds of his photographs are reproduced…

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List price: $100.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/17/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 10.50" wide x 12.40" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 5.038

Todd Brandow is the founding director of the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and in Paris.



Preface and Acknowledgments



Introduction: "A Boy Who Has New Ideas"



Steichen as Symbolist


Plates: 1895-1914


Peinture a la Lumiere: 1898-1907



Edward Steichen in Camera Work



Plates: 1915-1922


Finding the Real Magician-Light Itself: Voulangis, 1908-22



Edward Steichen: A Passion for Color



Steichen as Modernist


Plates: 1922-1936


The Modernist Fashion: Steichen's Commercial Photography Between the Wars



The Soul of the Photographer



Plates: 1940-1955


Edward Steichen as Exhibition Designer



Steichen Then, Now, and Again: Legacies of an Icon



Lives in Photography


Chronology



Selected Bibliography


Glossary of Photographic Processes Used by Edward Steichen


Works in the Exhibition


Index