Edward Steichen was the first modern fashion photographer, best known for shadowy portraits of silver-screen stars like Gloria Swanson, Marlene Dietrich, and Louise Brooks. That the dark room master ...

Edward Steichen (1879-1973) was an American photographer, painter, and museum curator who helped transform photography into an art form. At the turn of the century his photographs were hailed for ...

The elegant, extensive retrospective Edward Steichen Lives in Photography, which opened this week at Paris’ Jeu de Paume, begins with a giant 5 m by 4 m shot of Manhattan’s George Washington bridge.

J.P. Morgan sat for two minutes; one of the resulting portraits defined his reputation. Edward Steichen “No price is too great,” John Pierpont Morgan once declared, “for a work of unquestioned beauty ...

He was warned that he'd be selling out. A pioneering photographer, a sharp-eyed curator, the co-founder of an important art-photo movement, Edward Steichen confounded friends by entertaining an offer ...

Beaming faces pop out from an Avenger fighter pilot, as brigh- eyed gunners and pilots prime for action. Marines stay low on a smoldering, eerie terrain, tentatively inching forward against suicidal ...

Pioneered by Edward Steichen, Lewis W. Hine and Tana Hoban, photographically illustrated “concept” books have never had a more potentially receptive audience. By Leonard S. Marcus A new book of garden ...