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<p><p>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.<p>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

Who reads Edward Steichen : The Early Years?

Author

Joel Smith; Edward Steichen; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691048734

Category

art

Subjects

Photography, Fiction, History

Rating

4.67 / 5 (24 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13