Steichen at War

Steichen at War

Author:

Publisher: ABRAMS

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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Den amerikanske fotograf Edward Steichen ledede et hold af krigsfotografer, der var med på US Navy, s hangarskibe i Stillehavskrigen. Tekst og billeder dækker mange hændelser fra denne krigsskueplads under 2. verdenskrig


The Last Summer of the World: A Novel

The Last Summer of the World: A Novel

Author: Emily Mitchell

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2008-07-17

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0393247899

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"Absorbing…Mitchell's novel [is] the real thing." —Boston Globe In the summer of 1918, with the Germans threatening Paris, Edward Steichen arrives in France to photograph the war for the American army. There, he finds a country filled with poignant memories for him: early artistic success, marriage, the birth of two daughters, and a love affair that divided his family. Told with elegance and transporting historical sensitivity, Emily Mitchell’s first novel captures the life of a great American artist caught in the reckoning of a painful past in a world beset by war. A Finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lion's Fiction Award and named a Best Book of the Year by the Providence Journal, the Austin-American-Stateman, and the Madison Capital Times.


Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen

Author: Todd Brandow

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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By far the most lavish, thoughtfully selected, and beautifully produced book of Steichen s work.


Steichen

Steichen

Author: Penelope Niven

Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 820

ISBN-13:

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A sensitive, intelligent biography of one of the cultural giants of this century. Assembled with scholarly care and animated by the personal voices of Edward Steichen's own family, here is a magnificent portrait of the great photographer's life and work. 50 b&w photos.


Camera Aloft

Camera Aloft

Author: Von Hardesty

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-12-02

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1316416143

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Edward Steichen (1879–1973) played a key role in the development of photography in the twentieth century. He is well known for his varied career as an artist, a celebrated photographer and a museum curator. However, Steichen is less known for his pivotal role in shaping America's first experiments in aerial photography as a tool for intelligence gathering in what may be called his 'lost years'. In Camera Aloft, Von Hardesty tells how Steichen volunteered in 1917 to serve in the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). He rose rapidly in the ranks of the Air Service, emerging as Chief of Air Photography during the dramatic final offensives of the war. His photo sections were responsible for the rapid processing of aerial images gained through the daily and hazardous sorties over the front and in the enemy rear areas. What emerged in the eighteen months of his active service was a new template for modern aerial reconnaissance. The aerial camera, as with new weapons such as the machine gun, the tank and the airplane, profoundly transformed modern warfare.


The Family of Man Revisited

The Family of Man Revisited

Author: Gerd Hurm

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-08-09

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 100021169X

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The Family of Man is the most widely seen exhibition in the history of photography. The book of the exhibition, still in print, is also the most commercially successful photobook ever published. First shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955, the exhibition travelled throughout the United States and to forty-six countries, and was seen by over nine million people. Edward Steichen conceived, curated and designed the exhibition. He explained its subject as `the everydayness of life' and `the essential oneness of mankind throughout the world'. The exhibition was a statement against war and the conflicts and divisions that threatened a common future for humanity after 1945. The popular international response was overwhelmingly enthusiastic. Many critics, however, have dismissed the exhibition as a form of sentimental humanism unable to address the challenges of history, politics and cultural difference.This book revises the critical debate about The Family of Man, challenging in particular the legacy of Roland Barthes's influential account of the exhibition. The expert contributors explore new contexts for understanding Steichen's work and they undertake radically new analyses of the formal dynamics of the exhibition. Also presented are documents about the exhibition never before available in English. Commentaries by critical theorist Max Horkheimer and novelist Wolfgang Koeppen, letters from photographer August Sander, and a poetic sequence on the images by Polish poet Witold Wirpsza enable and encourage new critical reflections. A detailed survey of audience responses in Munich from 1955 allows a rare glimpse of what visitors thought about the exhibition. Today, when armed conflict, environmental catastrophe and economic inequality continue to threaten our future, it seems timely to revisit The Family of Man.


Steichen's Legacy

Steichen's Legacy

Author: Joanna T. Steichen

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 0679450769

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The companion volume to a major retrospective exhibition of Steichen's work at the Whitney Museum of Art presents more than three hundred photographs, spanning seven decades of work, including stunning landscapes, still lifes, cityscapes, fashion photographs, and portraits of friends, family, and celebrities. 17,500 first printing.


Real Fantasies

Real Fantasies

Author: Patricia Johnston

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-11-10

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 0520321316

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The Family of Man

The Family of Man

Author: Edward Steichen

Publisher: ABRAMS

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780810961692

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In the pages of this book are reproduced all of the 503 images that Steichen described as "photographs, made in all parts of the world, of the gamut of life from birth to death with emphasis on daily relationship..."-- Back cover.