Edward Steichen

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This paper examines how Edward Steichen engaged in photographic psychological exploration and how he constantly stretched what was once construed as a purely reproductive or at best journalistic form of media to where it had never been stretched before. It looks at how over the course of a long career that spanned nearly a century, Steichen's portraits encompassed a diverse and illustrious cast of characters, ranging from Richard Strauss to J. P. Morgan, Maurice Maeterlinck to George Bernard Shaw.

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"The hazy, opaque quality of the Swanson reproduction is characteristic of much of Steichen's photography, as well as the photo's merging of the popular art of cinema and photography with techniques often found in European high art. Steichen was born in Europe, to European parents, but his family emigrated from Luxembourg, to the United States in 1882. Steichen became interested in photography when he was sixteen, just at the turn of the new century. ("Edward Steichen," Getty Museum, 2004) Steichen's most formative years as a developing artist came during his service in World War I, where he organized an aerial photography unit for the United States Army. "

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