Tag: Edward Steichen

  • Steichen’s Family of Man Restored: New Life for a Photographic Touchstone

    Steichen’s Family of Man Restored: New Life for a Photographic Touchstone

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    In 1955, a decade into the Cold War, the Museum of Modern Art in New York opened its doors to a monumental photography exhibition, an aesthetic manifesto visualizing ideas of peace and “the essential oneness of mankind.” Edward Steichen, then director of the MoMA photography department, curated 503 photographs — from a pool of two million — by 273 artists from 68 countries with the at-once simple and grand goal of definitively “explaining man to man.”

  • Photographer Edward Steichen at the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne and Kunsthaus in Zurich – swissinfo

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    Two Swiss museums are hosting the most comprehensive retrospective ever on one of the icons of 20th-century photography.
    American photographer Edward Steichen, who died in 1973 two days short of his 94th birthday, had a career spanning 70 years, during which he never ceased to innovate.

    There certainly is a contrast between the 19-year-old who appears as a sharp silhouette in an early image and the “monument” who was responsible for a “photographic epic”, to use the title of the retrospective devoted to him by Lausanne’s Musée de l’Elysée.

    Preparing the exhibition was an epic in itself. “The issue of copyright took ages to sort out,” said William Ewing, the museum’s director, at the preview. Most of the works of art belong to the world’s largest galleries and private collections.

    If the exhibition reveals one thing about Steichen, it’s not his talent, but the abundance and diversity of his work

    Check it out here.