Edward Steichen
Will be published approx. on 6. August 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-500-41133-9 (ISBN)
Description
A compact survey of photographs by Edward Steichen, whose career spanned well over half a century.
Edward Steichen had the rare ability to turn his talents to almost all genres of photography with resounding success. Art and industry, fashion and beauty, celebrity portraits, landscapes and cityscapes, nudes and dancers - his legacy remains omnipresent. It was Steichen's curious and inventive mind that made this diversity possible, as he ignored established dogma to carve out his own unique path.
This book presents the best of his work from a career that spanned well over half a century. Featuring a revised introduction and updated to include a selection of Steichen's flora-related images, it offers an opportunity to present the photographer's work from a thoroughly contemporary perspective.
Edward Steichen had the rare ability to turn his talents to almost all genres of photography with resounding success. Art and industry, fashion and beauty, celebrity portraits, landscapes and cityscapes, nudes and dancers - his legacy remains omnipresent. It was Steichen's curious and inventive mind that made this diversity possible, as he ignored established dogma to carve out his own unique path.
This book presents the best of his work from a career that spanned well over half a century. Featuring a revised introduction and updated to include a selection of Steichen's flora-related images, it offers an opportunity to present the photographer's work from a thoroughly contemporary perspective.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
57 Illustrations, black and white; 4 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 190 mm
Width: 125 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-500-41133-9 (9780500411339)
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Person
William A. Ewing is an author and curator. Formerly the director of exhibitions at the International Center of Photography Museum in New York, and the director of the Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne, he has curated exhibitions for museums worldwide. Ewing is the author of dozens of books for Thames & Hudson, most recently Aviary, Human.Kind. and, with Danae Panchaud, Flora Photographica.