Steichen's legacy : photographs, 1895-1973 / edited and with text by Joanna Steichen.

Main entry:

Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973, photographer.

Title & Author:

Steichen's legacy : photographs, 1895-1973 / edited and with text by Joanna Steichen.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.

Description:

xxxii, 372 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
"A Borzoi Book" --Title page verso.
Next of kin -- Of woods and water -- Reverie -- Powerful people -- Challenging women -- Style -- The body -- Artists -- Early color processes -- Writers -- On the road -- Masters of music -- New York City -- Glamour -- Scale and symbol -- Improvisation -- Forces of nature -- On stage -- Flowers.

Summary:

This is the first gathering in thirty years of Steichen's photographs, spanning seven decades: the landscapes, the haunting studies of flowers, the portraits of friends and family, the still lifes and cityscapes. Here are fashion photographs taken during the fifteen years Steichen worked for Vogue. And here too are the breathtaking portraits he made for Vanity Fair ... In a personal and illuminating text, Joanna Steichen writes about her husband's passionate views on photography; about how he moved away from painting (his understanding and support of modernism helped bring the movement to this country); about his experiments with abstraction; about the repercussions of commercial success in his life as an artist; about how he and Joanna first met (through the mischievous intervention of Steichen's brother-in-law, Carl Sandberg) and how their relationship changed as they became lovers, man and wife and, finally, artist and assistant. --From jacket.

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Publisher description
Contributor biographical information

ISBN:

0679450769
9780679450764

Subject:

Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973.
Steichen, Edward, (1879-1973)
Photography, Artistic.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
photobooks.
Photobooks.
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Steichen, Joanna T., editor, writer of added commentary.
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 233109
Call No.: TR140.S818 S7 2000
Status: Available

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