#edward j. steichen

Edward J. Steichen Moonlight - Winter 1902 Platinum print with applied color 34.5 x 42.4 cm. (13 9/16 x 16 11/16 in.) Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933

Edward J. Steichen

Edward J. Steichen. In Memoriam, 1904.

Edward J. Steichen, Bound for Hawaii, 1934

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Edward J. Steichen The Big White Cloud, Lake George 1903, printed 1904

Using a painstaking technique of multiple printing, Steichen achieved prints of such painterly seductiveness they have never been equaled. This view of a pond in the woods at Mamaroneck, New York is subtly colored as Whistler's Nocturnes, and like them, is a tone poem of twilight, indistinction, and suggestiveness. Commenting on such pictures in 1910, Charles Caffin wrote in Camera Work: "It is in the penumbra, between the clear visibility of things and their total extinction into darkness, when the concreteness of appearances becomes merged in half-realised, half-baffled vision, that spirit seems to disengage itself from matter to envelop it with a mystery of soul-suggestion." [via The MET NYC]

Edward Steichen Magnolia Blossom, Voulangis , circa 1921 gelatin silver contact print Narcissus , 1901 platinum print