Edward Steichen: Portraits d’artistes – Die Künstlerporträts (German and English Edition) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3422072632 ISBN 13: 9783422072633

Publisher: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2015

Synopsis

This catalog brings together, for the first time, more than 70 artist portraits by Edward Steichen from the collection of the Musée national d’histoire et d’art Luxembourg. Edward Steichen (1879–1973) ranks as one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century; he was also a painter, gallerist, and a museum curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His photographic oeuvre begins around 1890 with pictorialism-style atmospheric photographs, and reaches its peak with avant-garde fashion photography and glamorous celebrity portraits from the 1920s and 30s. As chief photographer for all Condé Nast magazines, which included Vanity Fair and Vogue, Steichen redefined fashion and portrait photography. He trained his camera on New York celebrities, Hollywood stars, stage and film actors, as well as artists and literati. His subjects included, among others, Auguste Rodin, Constantin Brancusi, Franz von Lenbach, Henri Matisse, Charlie Chaplin, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Thomas Mann, and Richard Strauss. The text is in English and German.

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas Elsen is a member of the German Academy of Photographic Arts, director of the New Gallery at the Höhmannhaus and of the H2 – Center of Contemporary Arts in Augsburg. Christof Trepesch is director of the Kunstsammlungen und Museen Augsburg and is an associate lecturer at the Universities of Saarbrücken, Freiburg, and Augsburg. He is the editor of Paul Klee: Mythos Fliegen.

About this edition

• Publisher: Deutscher Kunstverlag
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 3422072632
• ISBN 13: 9783422072633
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 164
• Editor: Elsen Thomas, Trepesch Christof