Edward Steichen 1879-1973

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Description

Edward Steichen
'the man child, mayan indians, mexico'

warm-toned, flush-mounted, annotated in various unidentified hands in pencil, a Museum of Modern Art exhibition label, the museum's publicity department stamp, annotated by Grace N. Mayer in pencil, and foreign traveling exhibition stamps, on the reverse, matted, 1938 (A Life in Photography, pl. 221; Steichen's Legacy, pl. 179)

Exhibited

The Museum of Modern Art, Steichen the Photographer, March-May 1961, and in the international traveling version of the exhibition

Catalogue Note

In 1938, shortly after his retirement from Condé Nast, Steichen left for Mexico with his wife Dana. Free from the constraints of work, and using the lightweight 35mm Contax camera, Steichen immersed himself in photographing Mexican culture.