Edward Steichen
Edward Steichen was born March 27, 1879 in Bivange Luxembourg. He died March 25, 1973, only two days from his ninety-fourth birthday. At the age of three his family made the voyage to the United States and by the age of twenty-one Edward was a naturalized citizen. He had deemed himself a fine art painter although this evidently did not suit him as he is said to have burned all his canvases by 1922 (oseculoprodigioso). Edward was a pictorialist, meaning he desired, along with other experimental practices, an effect akin to painting in his photographs, this seems fitting as he was a painter as well as photographer. He had been a practicing photographer since 1895 and was very good at achieving the pitorialist effect, giving his photographs depth and meaning, a life beyond that of the subject photographed.
Steichen was a pioneer. Along with Alfred Stiegletz, Edward was a major advocate of the acceptance of photography as a legitimate art form. Until the 20th......

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