Edward Steichen

Huppert in Robert Wilson's video-portrait homage to Edward Steichen's 1928 photograph of Greta Garbo. For Isabelle Huppert, American fame has never been in the cards. At 56, the European superstar is fast approaching 100 career films, and...

In this article: Isabelle Huppert, Robert Wilson, Brooklyn, Heiner Muller, Sarah Kane, Dracula, 4.48 Psychosis, and I Heart Huckabees

...years 1955-56, supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship he won with recommendations from such titans of photography as Walker Evans and Edward Steichen. He came home to New York with 27,000 photographs, from which he culled 1,000 "work prints,"...

In this article: Robert Frank, Jack Kerouac, New York, New Orleans, Pack animal, Walker Evans, Manhattan, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Hollywood

...he subjugated his subjects to such interrogation that they finally let down their "mask" out of sheer fatigue. The natural heir of Edward Steichen and Cecil Beaton, both early 20th-century masters of the fashion and portrait genres, Penn...

In this article: Irving Penn, Vogue, Marcel Duchamp, Richard Avedon, Eugene Delacroix, Lisa Fonssagrives, Platinum, and Harper's Bazaar

A main Morris claim to fame is the 1955 "Family of Man" exhibit, chronicling the daily life of people worldwide. Curated by Edward Steichen of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, with text by Carl Sandburg, it honored the United Nations'...

In this article: Robert Capa, Family of Man, London, France, United States, Utah Beach, Legion d'honneur, and Spanish Civil War

A Conde Nast yachting fashion shot by Edward Steichen from 1928. Edward Steichen revolutionized fashion photography and gave it artistic credibility News of Annie Leibovitz's financial woes may have come as a surprise, but not so much...

In this article: Vogue, Chanel, Annie Leibovitz, Charlie Chaplin, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, and Royal Ontario Museum

...Ontario Museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario are dabbling in celebrity. It started with the AGO exhibit of Vanity Fair photographer Edward Steichen in August and continues this Sunday with the ROM's opening of its Vanity Fair Portraits:...

In this article: Vanity Fair, Royal Ontario Museum, Joint venture, Helmut Newton, Nan Goldin, Annie Leibovitz, Bruce Weber, Mario Testino, and Mick Jagger

...for Vogue and was the first French photographer to be commissioned by the American magazine Life. In 1953 he was chosen by Edward Steichen to appear in a group show, "Five French Photographers", at the Museum of Modern Art in New York,...

In this article: Willy Ronis, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, France, Brassai, Ansel Adams, Communism, and Popular front

...photographer to be commissioned by Life. In 1953 he was also one of the "Five French Photographers" selected by the curator Edward Steichen for a show at the New York Museum of Modern Art, the others being Cartier-Bresson, Doisneau,...

In this article: Willy Ronis, Robert Doisneau, Brassai, Paris, Popular front, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Prix Nadar, Alzheimer's disease, and Communist Party

Some dubbed him "the photographer of Paris par excellence" or a "humanist photographer", and his work featured in Edward Steichen's seminal "The Family of Man" exhibition in New York in 1955. In a tribute, Frederic Mitterrand, the...

In this article: Willy Ronis, Paris, Robert Doisneau, Bread, Brassai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and The Family of Man

THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING Exhibits showcase breadth of his career Above: Edward Steichen's "Evening Shoes by Vida Moore'' (left) and "Self-Portrait With Photographic Paraphernalia''; below: portrait of actor Gary...

In this article: Vogue, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, John Szarkowski, Noel Coward, Gary Cooper, and World War I