STEICHEN THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Texts By Carl Sandburg, Alexander Lieberman, Edward Steichen And Rene D'Harnoncourt -

(NY: MOMA, [1961]), 1961-01-01. Paperback. Good. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, [Published Date: 1961]. Soft cover, 80 pp. No other printings listed. In good condition. Black and white pictorial paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light to moderate overall scuffing, aging, spotting and soiling with heavier aging and spotting to the back cover. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked, with occasional light spotting. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Catalogue for retrospective exhibition by MOMA in honor of Steichen's 82nd birthday. Contents include: Foreword by Rene d'Harnoncourt; Steiehen on Photography; Steiehen's Eye by Alexander Liberman; Steiehen The Photographer by Carl Sandburg; Plates(50 single page black and white photograph reproductions); Biographical Outline by Grace HI. Mayey; A Selected Bibliography by Bernard Karpel. [From Foreword] This is the story of Edward Steichen, the artist who brought his talent to everything he touched but chose photography, the new art form, as his own preferred medium. Steichen has never been a specialist in the narrow sense of the word. Early in his career he moved easily from photography to painting and back to photography. He was always passionately interested in new form and sensitive to new content. When he first saw the work of the great innovators of the School of Paris, he responded enthusiastically and became their herald among his own countrymen in the U. S. A. In or out of the field of photography, Steichen knew no limits for his creative urge. He applied it to fabric design and to book illustration, even to gardening, producing in the process superb hybrid delphinium, the only flowers ever to have been given an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. He made a major contribution to the use of photographs in magazines on both the art pages and in the advertising sections. Last but not least, he created an entirely new type of photography exhibition in which photographs were carefully scaled and placed to create a collective image or a sequence of images to convey the over-all content of the exhibition in a dramatic manner. Steiehen is and has always been primarily a photographer but photography to him was an intrinsic part of the art of our time rather than a limited and isolated craft. He loves it as a sensitive means of giving visible form to human emotions and as an art form that reaches vast numbers of people. . .