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...Angeles County Museum of Art's Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008 brings together the magazine's historic 1913-1936 photo archive and its stash of contemporary portraits from 1983 to the present, tracing nearly a century of change in celebrity photography. Artists include Cecil Beaton, Man Ray, Edward Steichen, Helmut Newton, Annie Leibovitz, Mario Testino and Bruce Weber. The exhibit runs through March 1, 2009. 5905 Wilshire Boulevard...
PARIS Edward Steichen A retrospective of 400 of Steichen's photographs (right) are on exhibit for the first time ever in Europe at the Jeu de Paume museum (through...
...Early on, Steichen recognized the value of networking. He started his Great Men series in the early 1900s and continued doing portraits of the likes of J. Pierpont Morgan, Richard Strauss, Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill for much of his life. It didn't hurt his reputation that his brother-in-law, the well-known poet Carl Sandburg, published a biography, Steichen the Photographer, in 1929. In later years, Steichen's portraits tended toward show-business types like Gloria Swanson, mysterious behind a layer of lace, and W.C. Fields, hamming it up in his pajamas in one of the exhibition...
...commercialism, Steichen had a human side. He served his adopted country in World War I, and his work in aerial reconnaissance photography persuaded him to abandon the painterly pictorialist style for clear, precise images. At 60, he enlisted in Word War II, specializing in public relations photos and documentaries. From time to time, Steichen would drop out of commercial life to tend his own garden, literally. He loved flowers, breeding them (an iris is named after him) and photographing them. His floral pictures provide almost the only color in this dramatic, black-and-white show...
...curator of the Museum of Modern art in the early 1950s, he organized perhaps the most ambitious, most successful photo exhibition of all time, The Family of Man - 503 shots of shared human experiences gathered from around the world. Edward Steichen Lives in Photography concludes with a large, computerized, virtual reconstruction of the Family of Man. Steichen - the perfectionist, innovator and promoter - would have loved...