Word: steichen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...photography rub shoulders with painting and sculpture as a fine art? Master U.S. Photographer Edward Steichen has never doubted it.* His main job nowadays is planning exhibits of camera craft for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and every year since 1947 he has mounted shows to prove his point. Steichen's latest demonstration: his selection of 187 of the best pictures that have appeared in LIFE in the past 15 years...
...Steichen makes one of his main points quickly: a picture sequence can often add up to much more than the sum of its component pictures. In support, he offers a nine-shot panel of a country doctor making his rounds, seven stages in the teaching of a deaf child, four stages in a marine's homecoming (the Steichen caption: "Boy and girl-and a visual love song"). But many pictures suggest their subject in a single, self-contained flash: a Nebraska wheatfield canopied with monumental clouds; dead G.I.s on Buna Beach; Evita Perón getting her last primps...
...letter to TIME, Nov. 20, Photographer Edward Steichen said that a citation awaited the unknown photographer who made the outstanding picture of the burning carrier Franklin, reproduced in LIFE'S Picture History of World...
...photograph . . . made during rescue operations by the light cruiser U.S.S. Santa Fe, was taken by Ship's Photographer William B. Bates Ph.M. 1/c. I hope that Captain Edward Steichen will be able to locate him, in order to present him with a well-deserved citation...
Photographer Edward Steichen, 71, veteran of two wars, was off on a 30-day camera-clicking tour of duty with the Navy in the Pacific...