Unter dem Titel “In High Fashion, the Condé Nast Years,
1923–1937” zeigt das Fotografiemuseum FOAM in Amsterdam Werke von Edward
Steichen. Die Ausstellung läuft von 28. Juni bis 6. September 2013.
Edward Steichen wurde im Café Marquardt vielfach gezeigt. Siehe
die Tags zu seinem Namen.
Mehr Informationen zur Ausstellung
hier. FOAM beschreibt die Ausstellung den Künstler als folgt:
This
exhibition, with more than 200 unique vintage photos, represents a
high point in Steichen's long photographic career. The works that
he made throughout this period for the influential Vogue and Vanity
Fair magazines are some of the most impressive creations of the
twentieth century. They have been brought together especially for
this exhibition and are being shown for the first time in the
Netherlands.
Edward Steichen (1879-1973) was already a famous painter and
photographer on both sides of the Atlantic when, in early 1923, he
was offered one of the most prestigious and certainly the most
lucrative position in photography's commercial domain - that of
chief photographer for Condé Nast's influential and highly regarded
magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair. Summoning up his
exceptional talents, and fired with prodigious enthusiasm, Steichen
spent the next fifteen years showcasing the culture of that era and
its most prominent exponents from the realms of literature,
journalism, dance, sport, politics, theatre and film. It was for
his images of haute couture, though, that Steichen remains best
known.
Compared with his predecessors, Steichen accomplished a stylistic
leap in fashion photography equal in magnitude to the transition
from silent pictures to sound. He abandoned his artistic beginnings
in photographic Impressionism, Art Nouveau and Symbolism to become
- for those fifteen years, at least - the greatest photographer of
Art Déco and the originator - no less - of glamour photography. In
addition to stunning fashion photographs, from Worth and Poiret to
Chanel and Schiaparelli, the Steichen archive at Condé Nast, New
York, contains magnificent portraits - of Greta Garbo, Cecil B.
DeMille, Winston Churchill, Marlene Dietrich, George Gershwin,
Frank Lloyd Wright, Amelia Earhart, Walt Disney and hundreds of
other celebrities.
Since the 1930s, however, no more than a handful of these prints
have been exhibited or published. The period represents the high
point in Edward Steichen's photographic career, and the work he did
for Condé Nast's influential magazines are among the most striking
creations of twentieth-century photography.
Edward Steichen: In High Fashion, is produced by the
Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography,
Minneapolis.
