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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
WOLFSBURG, GERMANY - Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg presents Edward Steichen ..'In High Fashion', on view through January 4, 2009. In the fourteen years since it opened, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg has regularly presented the medium of photography in exhibitions devoted to the work of individual artists. To date these have included Lee Miller, Cecil Beaton, Brassaï, Richard Avedon, Man Ray, Pietro Donzelli and...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
WEST PALM BEACH.- Opening to the public tomorrow, October 11, 2008, Coming Into Focus: Jeane von Oppenheim and Photography at the Norton, 19982008, celebrates the 10th anniversary of Baroness Jeane von Oppenheim's significant donation of over 650 photographs. Her generous contribution propelled the Norton Museum into collecting photography seriously, and therefore, as having
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Portrait Gallery presents Women of Our Time: Twentieth Century Photographs, on view through February 1, 2009. In the exhibition "Women of Our Time: Twentieth Century Photographs," the National Portrait Gallery celebrates women who have challenged and changed America. Drawn exclusively from the Portrait Gallery's collection, these revealing portraits
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3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Emily Mitchell in The New Statesman: Edward Steichen's decision in 1923 to go to work for Condé Nast as principal photographer for Vanity Fair and Vogue was one of the most controversial and long-debated in the history of photography. Prior...
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American Artist (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
This exhibition on view at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, examines a softer style of landscape painting that emerged during the turn of the century, made popular by James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
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New Statesman (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
When he accepted a job at Condé Nast, Edward Steichen was criticised for "selling out" - but he turned commercial photography into a true art form Edward Steichen's decision in 1923 to go to work for Condé Nast as principal photographer for Vanity Fair and Vogue was one of the most controversial and long-debated in the history of photography. Prior to then, Steichen had exemplified the photographer-as-artist,...
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Apple Hot News (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
“Apple refreshed its iPod nano line last week,” report Jessica Flint and Hamish Robertson (vanityfair.com), “introducing nine new colors in the thinnest casing to date. Somehow they’ve also squeezed in an accelerometer, allowing you to literally shake the iPod to shuffle your songs.” Try an iPod nano and “you’ll once again be telling yourself you actually do need this new iPod.”
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
NEW YORK.- Among the most extraordinary photographs produced during World War II are those made by W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978), who served with active combat troops in the Pacific Theater from 1943 to 1945. The International Center of Photography is pleased to present Living with the Dead: W. Eugene Smith and World War II, an exhibition of work by one of the foremost
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Material Interest (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Opening this Saturday in Berlin: Fashion, a pictorial retrospective of the last nine decades in style. Edward Steichen, Peter Beard, and Horst P. Horst are among the 65 photographers featured; the latter's 1987 photo Round the Clock 1 (pictured) should...
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The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
Because Vanity Fair ran from 1913 to 1936, ceased publication, and then resumed in 1983, this dazzling panoply of twentieth-century fame has some striking absences: no Elvis, no Marilyn, no Beatles. The two resulting eras are presented not chronologically but mostly as a series of then-and-now diptychs . . .
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
We think of celebrity portraiture as a modern invention, yet Edward Steichen was taking glamorous photos of models and actresses decades before Mario Testino or Annie Leibovitz. Justine Picardie previews a new book of his ravishing images.
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Uptown Girls RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
Telegraph.co.uk Edward Steichen: Vogue's gallery Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour ago But in later years he thought [his position at the magazines] ruined him professionally because he was then thought of as a fashion and celebrity ...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
A new book celebrates Vanity Fair's tradition of great portraiture. Here, we reproduce a selection, introduced by editor Graydon Carter.
