- Joined Army and commanded the photographic
division of the U.S. Expeditionary Forces in World War
I, 1917–1919 directed the U.S. Naval Photographic Insti-
tute in World War II. During the 1920s and 1930s
worked as a commercial photographer forVogueand
Vanity Fairand other commercial clients. Appointed
director of the Department of Photography at the
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1947. Organized
The Family of Manexhibition 1955. Left MoMA, 1962;
The Edward Steichen Photography Center at MoMA
opens, 1964. Numerous awards include Chevalier de la
le ́gion d’honneur, 1919; Honorary Fellow, Royal Photo-
graphic Society of Great Britain, 1931; Presidential
Medal of Freedom, 1963; and Commander of Order of
Merit, 1966. Died in West Redding, Connecticut, 25
March 1973.
Individual Exhibitions
1902 Eduard Steichen, Paintings and Photographs; Maison
des artistes; Paris, France
1906 Exhibition of Photographs by Eduard Steichen; Little
Galleries of the Photo-Secession (291 Gallery); New
York, New York
1908 Eduard Steichen, Photographs in Monochrome and
Color; Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession; New
York, New York
1938 Edward Steichen; Baltimore Museum of Art; Balti-
more, Maryland
1950 Edward Steichen,Retrospective; American Institute of
Architects Headquarters; Washington, D.C.
1961 Steichen,The Photographer; Museum of Modern Art;
New York, New York
2000 Edward Steichen; Whitney Museum of American Art;
New York, New York
2002 Edward Steichen: Art as Advertising/Advertising as
Art; Norsk Museum for Fotografi-Preus Fotomuseum;
Horten, Norway
Group Exhibitions
1900 The New School of American Photography; Royal
Photographic Society; London. England and Paris,
France
1902 American Pictorial Photography; National Arts Club;
New York, New York
1905 Opening Exhibition; Little Galleries of the Photo-
Secession; New York, New York
1906 Exhibition of Photographs Arranged by the Photo-
Secession; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania
1910 The Younger American Painters; Little Galleries of the
Photo-Secession; New York, New York
International Exhibit of Pictorial Photography; Al-
bright Art Gallery; Rochester, New York
1932 Murals by American Painters and Photographers;
Museum of Modern Art; New York, New York
Selected Works
Miss Polly Horter, 1899
Self-Portrait with Brush and Palette, 1901
Rodin-le Penseur, 1902
In Memoriam, 1904
Flatiron Building, Evening, 1906
Pastorale-Moonlight, 1907
Daisies, 1912
Sunflowers from Seed to Seed, 1920–1961
Three Pears and an Apple, 1921
Diagram of Doom, 1922
Sunday Night on the 40th Street, 1925
Greta Garbo, 1928
The Pond-Autumn, 1950Further Reading
d’Harnoncourt, Rene ́, Alexander Liberman, and Carl
Sandburg. Steichen: The Photographer. New York:
Museum of Modern Art, 1961.
Gedrim, Ronald J.Edward Steichen: Selected Texts and
Bibliography. Oxford, England: Clio Press, 1996.
Johnston, Patricia.Real Fantasies: Edward Steichen’s Ad-
vertising Photography. Berkeley: University of Califor-
nia, 1997.
Longwell, Dennis.Steichen, the Master Prints, 1895–1914:
The Symbolist Period. New York: Museum of Modern
Art, 1978.
Niven, Penelope.Steichen, New York: C. Potter, 1997.
Smith, Joel.Edward Steichen: The Early Years. Princeton
and New York: Princeton University and Metropolitan
Museum of Art, 1999.
Steichen, Edward.A Life in Photography. Garden City, NJ:
Doubleday & Co, 1963.
Steichen, Edward, and Carl Sandburg.The Family of Man.
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1955.Edward Steichen, The Flatiron Building, Evening, from
‘‘Camera Work,’’ April, 1906.
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