
Edward Steichen
American Photographer · 1879–1973
40 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
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Actress Caja Eric Modeling a Gown by Chanel, New York
Getty Museum · 1928
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[Aerial View of a Bombardment, France]
Getty Museum · about 1918
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[Aerial View of a Bombed Landscape]
Getty Museum · about 1918
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[Aerial View of a Bombed-Out City]
Getty Museum · about 1918
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[Aerial View of a Field Being Bombed]
Getty Museum · about 1918
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[Aerial View of a French Village with Large Cathedral]
Getty Museum · about 1918
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[Aerial View of a World War I Battlefield, France]
Getty Museum · about 1918
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Aerial View of War Damage
Getty Museum · 1914–1918
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Autumn
Getty Museum · 1904
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[Barren Landscape]
Getty Museum · about 1930
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[Biplane]
Getty Museum · about 1918
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[Double Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Sprague]
Getty Museum · before 1900
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[Edward Steichen's Grandchildren]
Getty Museum · about 1930
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[Gloria Swanson]
Getty Museum · 1924
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Grand Prix at Longchamp, After the Races
Getty Museum · 1907
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[Greta Garbo]
Getty Museum · 1928
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[Incendiary Bombs Going Down Between Active Anti-Aircraft Fire]
Getty Museum · about 1918
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[John Barrymore as Hamlet]
Getty Museum · 1922
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La Cigale
Getty Museum · negative 1901; print 1908
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[Marion Morehouse, wife of poet e.e cummings, modelling for "Vogue"]
Getty Museum · 1927
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![[Mary Steichen as a Child in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris]](/api/proxy-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.getty.edu%2Fiiif%2Fimage%2Fc435b3c7-0f96-4ff1-b45f-0879cc175a2e%2Ffull%2F808%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg)
[Mary Steichen as a Child in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris]
Getty Museum · about 1909
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Moonlight: The Pond
Getty Museum · negative 1904; print 1906
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![[Mrs. Arthur Gordon Bowman, formerly Miss Electra Waggoner, in Wedding Gown by Hattie Carnegie for "Vogue"]](/api/proxy-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.getty.edu%2Fiiif%2Fimage%2F94a70678-6538-4f77-a53a-61eeb3d500a1%2Ffull%2F808%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg)
[Mrs. Arthur Gordon Bowman, formerly Miss Electra Waggoner, in Wedding Gown by Hattie Carnegie for "Vogue"]
Getty Museum · 1933
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[Original American Frontline Position, Southwest from Coordinates 21.08 - 32.08]
Getty Museum · about 1918
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[Paul Robeson as The Emperor Jones]
Getty Museum · 1933
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Portrait - Evening
Getty Museum · 1904
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Portrait - Lady H.
Getty Museum · negative 1903; print 1908
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Portrait of Auguste Rodin
Getty Museum · negative 1902; print about 1963
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Portrait of Carl Sandburg
Getty Museum · about 1927
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Portraits - Evening
Getty Museum · negative 1903; print 1906
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[Road into the Valley -- Moonrise]
Getty Museum · negative 1904; print 1906
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[Rodin - Le Penseur]
Getty Museum · 1902
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[Rudy Vallée and Graham McNamee at the Bozart]
Getty Museum · 1930s
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[Self-Portrait]
Getty Museum · 1901
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[Self-Portrait in Profile with Large Format Camera]
Getty Museum · about 1905
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Theodore Roosevelt
Getty Museum · 1908
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[The Pool]
Getty Museum · 1903
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[Time Space Continuum]
Getty Museum · 1920
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[Verdun]
Getty Museum · about 1918
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[Woman in Flowing Gown Staring Into a Crystal Ball]
Getty Museum · about 1910
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