Edward Steichen
American Photographer · 1879–1973
20 works on LinkedCulture
> The camera is a witness of objects, places, and events... The technical process simply serves as a vehicle of transcription and not as the art. > --Edward Steichen Edward Steichen became interested in photography at age sixteen. Influenced by the atmosphere of moonlight that came to characterize his early Pictorialist photographs, he also painted. Upon turning twenty-one, he left for Europe by w
Works

Autumn
Getty Museum · 1904
![[Gloria Swanson]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/5081c242-fb6b-4171-8bdd-5ff07390507a/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Gloria Swanson]
Getty Museum · 1924

Grand Prix at Longchamp, After the Races
Getty Museum · 1907
![[Greta Garbo]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/e6f32486-d5f3-46bb-b5d1-795923fc912c/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Greta Garbo]
Getty Museum · 1928
![[John Barrymore as Hamlet]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/9ff04383-b462-4070-bc25-403167e257a8/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[John Barrymore as Hamlet]
Getty Museum · 1922

La Cigale
Getty Museum · negative 1901; print 1908
![[Marion Morehouse, wife of poet e.e cummings, modelling for "Vogue"]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/b0a7e2b9-156c-4126-a41c-438c825da8f7/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Marion Morehouse, wife of poet e.e cummings, modelling for "Vogue"]
Getty Museum · 1927

Moonlight: The Pond
Getty Museum · negative 1904; print 1906
![[Mrs. Arthur Gordon Bowman, formerly Miss Electra Waggoner, in Wedding Gown by Hattie Carnegie for "Vogue"]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/94a70678-6538-4f77-a53a-61eeb3d500a1/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Mrs. Arthur Gordon Bowman, formerly Miss Electra Waggoner, in Wedding Gown by Hattie Carnegie for "Vogue"]
Getty Museum · 1933
![[Paul Robeson as The Emperor Jones]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/105db778-684b-4ecc-a8b6-66375c13925a/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Paul Robeson as The Emperor Jones]
Getty Museum · 1933

Portrait - Evening
Getty Museum · 1904

Portrait of Auguste Rodin
Getty Museum · negative 1902; print about 1963

Portraits - Evening
Getty Museum · negative 1903; print 1906
![[Road into the Valley -- Moonrise]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/17be74b3-f3a6-487e-9c6a-efb76673edf1/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Road into the Valley -- Moonrise]
Getty Museum · negative 1904; print 1906
![[Rodin - Le Penseur]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/afb44327-f0fc-4e55-ad38-3b3d70bcc62a/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Rodin - Le Penseur]
Getty Museum · 1902
![[Self-Portrait]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/3ddb734f-7029-4651-a093-9b2910b069f9/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Self-Portrait]
Getty Museum · 1901
![[Self-Portrait in Profile with Large Format Camera]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/3fc09aef-0a4b-499f-a784-f8428349143d/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Self-Portrait in Profile with Large Format Camera]
Getty Museum · about 1905

Theodore Roosevelt
Getty Museum · 1908
![[The Pool]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/1148aa6a-abb8-4869-9e93-530990297449/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[The Pool]
Getty Museum · 1903
![[Time Space Continuum]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/0b0fd46b-7be4-4320-81fa-475409919608/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Time Space Continuum]
Getty Museum · 1920