EDWARD STEICHEN

Details
EDWARD STEICHEN

Self Portrait with Photographic Paraphernalia Photographed for Vanity Fair, New York

Gelatin silver print. 1929. West 40th Street stamp on the reverse of the mount. 10 x 8in. Framed.
Provenance
Acquired from the photographer
Literature
A Life in Photography, pl. 95; Vanity Fair: Photographs of an Age 1914-1936, p. 199. See also: The American Art Journal, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, 1986, fig. 5, p. 6 for a reproduction included in the article "The Open Window and the Empty Chair: Charles Sheeler's View of New York, by Carol Troyen. Writing on Sheeler's painting, View of New York, Troyen states: Steichen's image is as lively and witty as Sheeler's is sober and ironic; nonetheless, the two works have much in common in their active use of shadows and in their identification of a photographer with his equipment.
Exhibited
The Salons of America, 1930

Lot Essay

Steichen's Self Portrait was reproduced in the October 1929 issue of Vanity Fair, captioned The World's Best Photographer, by Frank Crowinshield, the foresighted editor responsible for bringing Steichen to the magazine.