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Vanity Fair (for the so enlightening article on Staff Photographer Steichen written by Associate Editor Brokaw...
...about half of the show was devoted to the prints of a group of modern photographers, now famed and successful, who more than 25 years ago self-consciously called themselves the Photosecessionists and started the magazine Camera Work under amazing, pugnacious Alfred Stieglitz. Beside Photographer Stieglitz, they were: Edward Steichen (now photogra-pher-in-chief to the Conde Nast publica-tions), Gertrude Kasebier and the late Clarence White. Also included in last week's exhibition were prints by the younger Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler, Ed- ward Weston. The work of these photographers has often been shown, always been praised...
Famous photographers whose works are on view include Eugene Atget, Anton Bruehl, Tina Modotti, Charles Sheeler, Edward Steichen, Ralph Steiner, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Edward Weston...
Back to his studio went Photographer Steichen, sorely nettled. He labored over the second plate until he got a fine, enlarged print. He showed it around. Everybody liked it. Belle da Costa Greene, able Morgan librarian, pronounced it the greatest portrait of her boss which she had ever seen. When she showed it to him, he declared he had never seen it before, authorized her to buy it. She made a bid of $5,000 to famed pioneer Photographer Alfred Stieglitz (TIME, Feb. 25), then editor of Camera Work, who owned the print. He refused. She then begged Photographer Steichen...
Photographer Steichen was born in Milwaukee in 1879, son of a copper miner and a milliner. His boyhood was spent doing odd jobs. He was the first bicycle messenger in Milwaukee. Because he liked to draw and had bought a camera with his savings, he was apprenticed at 15 to American Lithographing Co., where, for three dollars a week, he washed spittoons, swept floors. Soon he was drawing advertisements. Most famed was his large poster of a voluptuously reclining lady with the legend, "Cascarets; they work while you sleep...