Edward Steichen was the first modern fashion photographer, best known for shadowy portraits of silver-screen stars like Gloria Swanson, Marlene Dietrich, and Louise Brooks. That the dark room master ...

Makeda Best, a deputy director of the Oakland Museum of California and a photographer, will lead the department.

Pioneered by Edward Steichen, Lewis W. Hine and Tana Hoban, photographically illustrated “concept” books have never had a more potentially receptive audience. By Leonard S. Marcus A new book of garden ...

A major Edward Steichen exhibition, showing the transition from photography to modernism, opens this week at the Paris’ Jeu de Paume. Conde Nast Publications Conde Nast Publications Joanna T. Steichen ...

The elegant, extensive retrospective Edward Steichen Lives in Photography, which opened this week at Paris’ Jeu de Paume, begins with a giant 5 m by 4 m shot of Manhattan’s George Washington bridge.

J.P. Morgan sat for two minutes; one of the resulting portraits defined his reputation. Edward Steichen “No price is too great,” John Pierpont Morgan once declared, “for a work of unquestioned beauty ...

Edward Steichen (1879-1973) was an American photographer, painter, and museum curator who helped transform photography into an art form. At the turn of the century his photographs were hailed for ...