1852–1934 · United States · Photographer
Gertrude Kasebier
Soft-focus Pictorialist portraits of mothers, children and sitters at rest.
The Manger, 1899Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1879–1973 · UNITED STATES
Edward Steichen
Painterly early work, then glossy modern fashion and celebrity portraits.
- Born
- 1879
- Died
- 1973
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1904The Flatiron
- 1904The Pond-Moonlight
- 1944The Fighting Lady
- 1955The Family of Man (exhibition)
WHY THEY MATTER
Chief photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair, director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, where he created The Family of Man; his documentary The Fighting Lady won an Academy Award.
THE LIFE
Born in Luxembourg and raised in the United States, Steichen moved from painting into photography and helped launch modern fashion photography in 1911. From 1923 to 1938 he was chief photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair. He later ran the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art and assembled The Family of Man, which toured the world. A war documentary he directed, The Fighting Lady, won an Academy Award.
Also born in 1850–1899
1857–1927 · France · Photographer
Eugene Atget
Patient, empty-street records of old Paris before modernisation.
Avenue des Gobelins, 1927Source: Wikipedia
1864–1946 · United States · Photographer
Alfred Stieglitz
From Pictorialism to sharp modernism, with a deep belief in photography as art.
The Steerage, 1907Source: Wikipedia
1874–1940 · United States · Photographer
Lewis Hine
Direct, dignified portraits of working children and labourers.
Young Doffers in the Elk Cotton Mills, 1910Source: Wikipedia
1876–1964 · Germany · Photographer
August Sander
Typological portraits of every class and trade, frontal and calm.
Face of Our Time (Antlitz der Zeit), 1929Source: Wikipedia
1883–1976 · United States · Photographer
Imogen Cunningham
Sharp-focus studies of plants, bodies and industrial forms.
Magnolia Blossom, 1925Source: Wikipedia