Edward Steichen

Edward Jean Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973) was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and curator, renowned as one of the most prolific and influential figures in the history of photography. Steichen was credited with transforming photography into an art form. His photographs appeared in Alfred Stieglitz's groundbreaking magazine Camera Work more often than anyone else during its publication run from 1903 to 1917. Stieglitz hailed him as "the greatest photographer that ever lived".

Author: Auguste Rodin
Award: Légion d'Honneur; Medal of Freedom
Awards: Légion d'Honneur; Medal of Freedom
BirthDate: 27 March 1879
Birth date: 27 March 1879
BirthName: enÉdouard Jean Steichen
Birth name: enÉdouard Jean Steichen
BirthPlace: enBivange/Béiweng, Luxembourg
Birth place: Bivange; Luxembourg
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Caption: enEdward Steichen, photographed by; Fred Holland Day
Child: Mary Calderone
Children: enCharlotte "Kate" Rodina Steichen; Mary Calderone
Comment: enEdward Jean Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973) was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and curator, renowned as one of the most prolific and influential figures in the history of photography. Steichen was credited with transforming photography into an art form. His photographs appeared in Alfred Stieglitz's groundbreaking magazine Camera Work more often than anyone else during its publication run from 1903 to 1917. Stieglitz hailed him as "the greatest photographer that ever lived".
DeathDate: 25 March 1973
Death date: 25 March 1973
DeathPlace: enWest Redding, Connecticut, U.S.
Death place: West Redding, Connecticut
Depiction
Field: Painting
Field: Painting
Field: Photography
Field: Photography
Footer: enMemorial in Edward Steichen Square, commemorating the birthplace of Edward Steichen in Bivange, Luxembourg
Has abstract: enEdward Jean Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973) was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and curator, renowned as one of the most prolific and influential figures in the history of photography. Steichen was credited with transforming photography into an art form. His photographs appeared in Alfred Stieglitz's groundbreaking magazine Camera Work more often than anyone else during its publication run from 1903 to 1917. Stieglitz hailed him as "the greatest photographer that ever lived". As a pioneer of fashion photography, Steichen's 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, while also working for many advertising agencies, including J. Walter Thompson. During these years, Steichen was regarded as the most popular and highest-paid photographer in the world. After the United States' entry into World War II, Steichen was invited by the United States Navy to serve as Director of the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit. In 1944, he directed the war documentary The Fighting Lady, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 17th Academy Awards. From 1947 to 1961, Steichen served as Director of the Department of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art. While there, he curated and assembled exhibits including The Family of Man, which was seen by nine million people. In 2003, the Family of Man photographic collection was added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in recognition of its historical value. In February 2006, a print of Steichen's early pictorialist photograph, The Pond—Moonlight (1904), sold for US$2.9 million—at the time, the highest price ever paid for a photograph at auction. A print of other photograph of the same style, The Flatiron (1904), became the second most expensive at the art market on 8 November 2022, when it was sold by $ 11.840.000, at Christie's New York, well above the estimate of $ 2.000.000/3.000.000.
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Homepage: www.edwardsteichen.com
Hypernym: Photographer
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Is primary topic of: Edward Steichen
Label: enEdward Steichen
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Name: enEdward Steichen
Name: enEdward Steichen
Nationality: enLuxembourg by birth; United States from 1900
Nationality: Luxembourg; United States
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Relatives: enCarl Sandburg; enLilian Steichen
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Spouse: enClara Smith; enDana Desboro Glover; enJoanna Taub; 1903; 1922; 1923; 1957; 1960
Subject: Category:1879 births; Category:1973 deaths; Category:20th-century American photographers; Category:Académie Julian alumni; Category:American art curators; Category:American portrait photographers; Category:Artists from New York City; Category:Fashion photographers; Category:Luxembourgian emigrants to the United States; Category:People associated with the Museum of Modern Art (New York City); Category:People from Redding, Connecticut; Category:Photographers from New York (state); Category:Photography critics; Category:Photography curators; Category:Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients; Category:Vanity Fair (magazine) people; Category:Vogue (magazine) people; Category:War photographers
Text: en"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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