The brilliant photographer, Edward Steichen, introduced his work and gained recognition in the early century as a photographer of remarkable sensitivity and individuality. Born in Luxembourg on March 27, 1879, Steichen was brought to the US as an infant and grew up in Hancock, Michigan. At 15, he was an apprentice to a firm of lithographers and studied in Paris. He showed great talent and later went on to co-found the Photo-Secession group in New York with Clarence H. White and Alfred Stieglitz. Up until 1914, Steichen specialized in soft-focused photographic images which were representative of the styles of the Postimpressionists and Symbolists. From 1923-38, he practiced commercial photography in New York and was chief photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair. Steichen later directed the Museum of Modern Arts' photography department and his last contribution to the art world was his experimental color filming of the seasonal changes of a shadblow tree. Steichen's autobiography, A Life in Photography, appeared in 1963.
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