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...Edward Steichen's portrait of his brother-in-law, Carl Sandburg, clearly illustrates this method of selecting and arranging different images. Steichen printed six different negatives on the same piece of paper and arranged them to show the progressive animation of Sandburg's face breaking into a smile. Such selection can involve choosing one out of 10,000 exposures taken in the span of a second...
This generation--call it mod, pop, turned-on, hip, or any of the other catch phrases of this label-happy era--asserted itself by establishing a new standard of moral behavior. The process obviously involved redefinition: in the '30's, photographer meant Stieglitz, Steichen, Dorothea Lange; now photographer means cool. But Michaelangelo Antonioni has other ideas...
Midst laurels stood: Dutch Astronomer Jan Henrik Oort, 66, a pioneer in radio astronomy, honored with Columbia University's $25,000 Vetlesen Prize; Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare John W." Gardner, 54, Photographer Edward Steichen, 87, and Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, all named for Family of Man awards for their contributions to humanity; Israel's patriarchal Man of Letters Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 78, and German-born Jewish Poetess Nelly Sachs, 74, a fragile lyricist who fled Hitler's Germany in 1940 to live in Sweden...
...camera had begun sharpening the artist's eye to the importance of the fleeting instant; it also introduced, in the person of the photographer, the artist's rival for reality. Both crafts have profited: a Degas learned to crop his paintings from the photographer; a Steichen learned atmosphere from the impressionists. Out of this enriching dialogue has come a generation of photographic imagemakers, who have fixed for all time, as surely as the great artists of the past, the fleeting moment that reflects the whole and stands as the witness for an era. Of these, none is greater...
...change someone was snapping his picture, and Master Photographer Edward Steichen, 86, was grinning "cheese" through his whiskers. He'd just been made a Commandeur de l'Ordre de Mérite of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, where he was born. After Luxembourg's Ambassador to the United Nations, Pierre Wurth, presented the order's cross in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, Steichen reported that he'll be starting off on a new photographic collection, something like 1955's magnificent "Family of Man." Only now, he chuckled, "it's about...