Edward Steichen 1879-1973

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Description

Edward Steichen
'front page'

bromide print, numbered and dated in the negative, mounted, a Condé Nast copyright stamp on the mount, titled and annotated ‘#3 – Class “C”’ and ‘Illustration for Vanity Fair,’ possibly by the photographer, in ink, and with his ’80 West 40^{th Street, New York’ studio stamp, a Condé Nast copyright stamp, the annotation ‘Bromide’ in an unidentified hand in pencil, and the Museum’s collection stamp, label, and accession number in an unidentified hand in blue pencil on the reverse, 1928, printed no later than September 1933}

Provenance

Gift of the photographer, September 1933

Exhibited

Chicago, The Century of Progress International Photographic Salon, 1933 and 1934

Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Imagination to Image, April – September 1999; and traveling thereafter to The Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, September – December 2000; and The Montclair, New Jersey, Art Museum, January – April 2001

Literature

Other prints of this image:

Photographie 1930 (Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1930, reprinted in 1980), p. 91

Cleveland Amory and Frederic Bradlee, Vanity Fair: A Calvacade of the 1920s and 1930s (New York, 1960), p. 152

Edward Steichen, A Life in Photography (New York, 1960), pl. 152

Catalogue Note

When the image was published in Vanity Fair in 1928, the caption read, ‘”The Front Page”: The latest play of newspaperdom (by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur) stars Osgood Perkins and Lee Tracy as its super-journalists.’