Edward Steichen (1879-1973) is one of the most important figures in the . history of photography. During his active career, which lasted over half the . life span of photography, he was renowned as... Read full biography
Edward Steichen (1879-1973) is one of the most important figures in the . history of photography. During his active career, which lasted over half the . life span of photography, he was renowned as an artist, fashion photographer, curator, writer, and technical innovator. He was also a passionate... Read full biography
Edward Steichen (1879-1973) is one of the most important figures in the . history of photography. During his active career, which lasted over half the . life span of photography, he was renowned as an artist, fashion photographer, curator, writer, and technical innovator. He was also a passionate advocate for photography as an art form, and led, along with Alfred Stieglitz, an aesthetic revolution that enabled photography to be considered as a medium capable of interpretation and expression,... Read full biography
Edward Steichen (1879-1973) is one of the most important figures in the . history of photography. During his active career, which lasted over half the . life span of photography, he was renowned as an artist, fashion photographer, curator, writer, and technical innovator. He was also a passionate advocate for photography as an art form, and led, along with Alfred Stieglitz, an aesthetic revolution that enabled photography to be considered as a medium capable of interpretation and expression, and not as a mere documentary record of visual facts. Steichen took up photography in 1895, at the age of sixteen, and was self-taught. During his early career, around the turn of the century, he was associated with a style of photography known as... Read full biography
Edward Steichen (1879-1973) is one of the most important figures in the . history of photography. During his active career, which lasted over half the . life span of photography, he was renowned as an artist, fashion photographer, curator, writer, and technical innovator. He was also a passionate advocate for photography as an art form, and led, along with Alfred Stieglitz, an aesthetic revolution that enabled photography to be considered as a medium capable of interpretation and expression, and not as a mere documentary record of visual facts. Steichen took up photography in 1895, at the age of sixteen, and was self-taught. During his early career, around the turn of the century, he was associated with a style of photography known as Pictorialism. Pictorialists felt that the aesthetic promise of photography lay in an emulation of painting. Steich... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (61)
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A History of American Tonalism
2010
Cleveland, David Adams
592 pages (color)
Cezanne and American Modernism (Exhibition catalog)
2010
Stavitsky, Gail; Katherine Rothkopf
372 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Celebrating 25 Years Hollis Taggart Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
2005
Bullaudy, Vivian (Essay)
0 pages (color)
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Famous Wisconsin Artists and Architects
2004
Levy, Hannah Heidi
316 pages
Dreams and Dramas: Moonlight and Twilight in American Art (Hollis Taggart Galleries) (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Leeds, Valerie (Essay)
88 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings
1998
Calo, Mary Ann
328 pages
Visual Arts in the 20th Century
1997
Lucie-Smith, Edward
400 pages (color)
German-American Artists in Early Milwaukee: A Biographyical Dictionary
1997
Merrill, Peter C
165 pages
Steichen A Biography
1997
Niven, Penelope
770 pages
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
The Family of Man
1996
Steichen, Edward and Carl Sandburg, Prologue
192 pages (color)
City of Ambition Artists and New York, 1900-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Sussman, Elizabeth
144 pages (color)
To Be Modern American Encounters with Cezanne and Company (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Yount, Sylvia/Elizabeth Johns
80 pages (color)
Made in America Ten Centuries of American Art
1995
Adams, H. and Johnson, K.
192 pages (color)
Advertising, Artists & the Borders of Art
1995
Bogart, Michelle H
427 pages
Impressionist New York
1994
Gerdts, William H
224 pages (color)
From Ansel Adams To Andy Warhol
1994
Hennessey, William, G Smith
119 pages
Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde
1991
Watson, Steven
439 pages (color)
Sadakichi Hartmann Critical Modernist, Collected Art Writings
1991
Weaver, Jane Calhoun (editor)
410 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Americans and Paris (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Marlais, Michael Andrew
62 pages (color)
John Twachtman Connecticut Landscapes (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Chotner, Deborah (others)
118 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Long Island Landscape Painting 1820-1920 (Volume 1)
1985
Pisano, Ronald G
167 pages (color)
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
The Art of the City Views and Versions of New York
1984
Conrad, Peter
329 pages
The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marlor, Clark S
600 pages
Tonalism An American Experience (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Gerdts, William H (others)
94 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Catalogue of American Painting
1981
San Diego Museum of Art
240 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979
Brown, Milton W (others)
616 pages (color)
American Imagination and Symbolist Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Eldredge, Charles C
176 pages (color)
The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings
1979
Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor)
227 pages (color)
The Eye of Stieglitz
1978
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
84 pages (color)
Turn-of-the-Century America Paintings, Graphics, Photographs 1890-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Hills, Patricia
194 pages (color)
Alfred Stieglitz and the American Avant-Garde
1977
Homer, William Innes
335 pages
America as Art
1976
Taylor, Joshua C
320 pages (color)
A Bicentennial Treasury American Masterpieces from the Metropolitan
1976
Tracy, Berry and Howat, John
82 pages (color)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
The Artist in America
1967
Artist in America, Editors
256 pages (color)
Great Artists of America
1963
Freedgood, Lillian
254 pages (color)
Art Noveau Art and Design at the Turn of the Century (Exhibition catalog)
1959
Selz, Peter/Mildred Constantin
192 pages
The Turn of the Century: Arts Yearbook 1
1957
Kramer, Hilton (Editor); Francis Kleoppel, James R. Mellow
144 pages (color)
The Emergence of an American Art
1942
Mellquist, Jerome
421 pages
The Story of American Painting The Evolution of Painting in America
1937
Caffin, Charles H
396 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One
1932
Hartmann, Sadekichi
363 pages
Impressions of the Art at the Panama Pacific Exposition (Exhibition catalog)
1916
Brinton, Christian
203 pages
Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art (Exhibition catalog)