biography
| name: |
Steichen, Edward (Jean)
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pronunciation:
[stiykhn]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1879–1973)
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| biography:
| Photographer, born in Luxembourg. His family moved to the USA in 1882, and he studied art in Milwaukee (1894–8). He was a member of The Linked Ring in England, and in 1902 helped Alfred Stieglitz to found the American Photo-Secession Group. In World War 1 he served as commander of the photographic division of the US army, and in the 1920s achieved success with his ‘New Realism’ fashion and portrait photography. He was head of US Naval Film Services during World War 2, and director of photography at the New York Museum of Modern Art (1945–62), organizing the world-famous exhibition The Family of Man in 1955. |
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