Edward Steichen / Dispersing Steichens Acroos the Contry

“Thérèse Duncan on the Acropolis” (1921) is one of 142 Edward Steichen photos being donated by Richard and Jackie Hollander to museums in New York, Los Angeles and Evanston, Ill.

INSIDE ART

Dispersing Steichens Across the Country

By Carol Vogel

The New York Times

Published: February 14, 2013

Eight years ago the Los Angeles financier Richard Hollander and his wife, Jackie, bought more than 500 Edward Steichen photographs directly from his estate. And in one fell swoop the Hollanders became known for having what experts say is the world’s largest private collection of Steichen works. Their holdings cover all periods — the celebrity and fashion images, the early landscapes and city scenes, the fantastical ads — and each image was printed by Steichen himself, which makes the collection highly coveted. “I’ve gotten the bug,” Mr. Hollander said in a telephone interview when asked about his love of photography and his collection, which includes works by many other photographers. “Now I want to share my vision.”

Edward Steichen / Nudes

The nudes of Edward Steichen

One of the most influential figures in the history of photography, Edward Steichen (1879-1973) was also one of the most prolific and diverse. No other photographer can claim a leading role among the Photo-Secessionists, vibrant innovation in fashion photography, chief photographer for Condé Nast's Vogue and Vanity Fair, war photography born of two world wars, signature celebrity portraiture, and the title of curator at MOMA/NY where he conceived the groundbreaking exhibition, The Family of Man, viewed by nine million people in thirty-eight countries.  

 1903

 Nude with Cat

 Torso

1902

In 1913 Alfred Stieglitz devoted a double issue of Camera Work to Steichen's photographs. He wrote in the magazine: "Nothing I have ever done has given me quite so much satisfaction as finally sending this number out into the world." 

(Dust Grain Sheet Fed Photogravure) 

1905

"Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?"

~ Richard Corliss 


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