Star Power: Edward Steichen’s Glamour Photography

Edward Steichen was already a famous painter and photographer on both sides of the Atlantic, when he was offered the position of chief photographer for Condé Nast’s influential and highly-regarded magazines, Vogue and Vanity Fair. For the next fifteen years, Steichen would take full advantage of the resources and prestige conferred by the Condé Nast empire to produce an oeuvre of unequalled brilliance, putting his exceptional talents and prodigious energies to work dramatizing and glamorizing contemporary… Show more culture and its achievers – in politics, literature, journalism, dance, theatre, opera, and above all, the world of high fashion.

Included are Steichen’s iconic portraits of famous actors, actresses, painters, producers, athletes, playwrights, poets, dancers, journalists, singers and writers, in addition to
numerous fashion photographs. Steichen’s crisp, bold, modern style revolutionized fashion photography during the 1920s and 1930s, and greatly influenced his successors in the field, including Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, and Bruce Weber. The 1920s and 1930s represent the high point in Edward Steichen’s photographic career, and the work he did
for Condé Nast’s influential magazines will stand forever among the most striking creations of twentieth-century photography.

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