Word: steichen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Midst laurels stood: Dutch Astronomer Jan Henrik Oort, 66, a pioneer in radio astronomy, honored with Columbia University's $25,000 Vetlesen Prize; Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare John W." Gardner, 54, Photographer Edward Steichen, 87, and Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, all named for Family of Man awards for their contributions to humanity; Israel's patriarchal Man of Letters Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 78, and German-born Jewish Poetess Nelly Sachs, 74, a fragile lyricist who fled Hitler's Germany in 1940 to live in Sweden...
...camera had begun sharpening the artist's eye to the importance of the fleeting instant; it also introduced, in the person of the photographer, the artist's rival for reality. Both crafts have profited: a Degas learned to crop his paintings from the photographer; a Steichen learned atmosphere from the impressionists. Out of this enriching dialogue has come a generation of photographic imagemakers, who have fixed for all time, as surely as the great artists of the past, the fleeting moment that reflects the whole and stands as the witness for an era. Of these, none is greater...
...change someone was snapping his picture, and Master Photographer Edward Steichen, 86, was grinning "cheese" through his whiskers. He'd just been made a Commandeur de l'Ordre de Mérite of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, where he was born. After Luxembourg's Ambassador to the United Nations, Pierre Wurth, presented the order's cross in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, Steichen reported that he'll be starting off on a new photographic collection, something like 1955's magnificent "Family of Man." Only now, he chuckled, "it's about...
Died. Dorothea Lange, 70, noted photographer of the hopeless poor, whose stark portraits of Depression breadlines and "Okie" refugees helped shock the public into supporting Government relief projects, and led Edward Steichen to call her "without doubt our greatest documentary photographer"; of cancer; in San Francisco...
Among the guests were Painters Willem deKooning and Ben Shahn, Novelist Katherine Anne Porter, Poetess Marianne Moore, Architects Edward Durell Stone and Walter Gropius, Photographer Edward Steichen, Inventor Buckminster Fuller, Actors Alfred Lunt and Fredric March. Also invited but conspicuously absent was Playwright Arthur Miller, who, like Poet Robert Lowell on a similar occasion last June, sent his regrets, and for good measure sent Lyndon Johnson a nasty little note condemning U.S. policy in Viet...