Steichen Photography
Edward Steichen, painter and photographer, was one of America’s most influential artists in the modern age.
Edward Steichen(1879 – 1973) American (b. Luxembourg)
He began a partnership with Alfred Stieglitz and founded the Photo-Secession in 1902 – a close knot group of photographers that were published and promoted during the next decade. Steichen lived both in Paris and in New York, amongst immensely talented artists – Matisse, Rodin, Picasso, and Brâncuși. He became a promoter of European artists in America, selecting their works and exhibiting it overseas. Among it all, in 1911, Steichen even became, in a way, one of the world’s first fashion photographers, through his photos of gowns designed by couturier Paul Poiret.