Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen (1879-1973) was one of the most influential figures in 20th-century photography, whose career spanned an extraordinary seven decades and encompassed multiple transformations in both art and commercial photography. Born in Luxembourg and raised in Michigan, Steichen began as a painter but soon became captivated by photography, which he initially approached with painterly, soft-focus techniques that became known as Pictorialism. In the early 1900s, Steichen wor…