One of the most influential figures in the history of photography, Edward
Steichen (1879-1973) was also one of the most precocious. Born in
Luxembourg, raised in Wisconsin, and trained as a lithographer's
apprentice, Steichen took up photography in his teens and by age
twenty-three had created brooding tonalist landscapes and brilliant
psychological studies that won the praise of Alfred Stieglitz in New
York and Auguste Rodin in Paris, among others. Over the next decade,
this young man--the preferred portraitist of the elite of two
continents--was repeatedly acclaimed as the peerless master of the
painterly photograph. This volume, covering the period from the late
1890s to World War I, highlights masterpieces from The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, which houses the finest collection of Steichen's early
work in the world, and reproduces them in near-facsimile through
four-color digital offset lithography.
Steichen worked with a
designer's inventive eye, a Symbolist's poetic sensibility, an
entrepreneur's charisma, and--above all--the originality and finesse
of a creative and painstaking printer to establish ambitious new
standards in artistic photography. Overlaying the subtle tone-poetry
of his platinum prints with repeated washes of harmonious color, he
created unforgettable images. In his three famous twilight views of
New York's Flatiron Building, one of the landmarks of
turn-of-the-century architecture, Steichen crafted a powerful symbol
of a new age. His stunning sequence of Rodin's Balzac figure in
the moonlight is presented here as are his nudes, with their frankly
erotic sense of flesh and weight. And the intense energy of a decade
comes to life in his portraits of a diverse cast ranging from Richard
Strauss to J. P. Morgan, Maurice Maeterlinck to George Bernard
Shaw--and Steichen himself, the founding auteur of a century of
celebrity. In the accompanying text, Joel Smith explores Steichen's
maturing artistry in the light of contemporary developments in
photography, graphic design, and the decorative arts.
This is a
stunning visual record of the emergence of Steichen as a great artist
and is one of the most important books to be published on his life and
work in recent years.
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