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Edward Steichen, né Édouard Jean Steichen, est un photographe et peintre américain d'origine luxembourgeoise, né le 27 mars 1879 à Bivange au Luxembourg et mort le 25 mars 1973 à West Redding dans le Connecticut.

Éditeur de magazine, galeriste et conservateur du MoMA de New York , il a été un trait d'union culturel entre les États-Unis et l'Europe. Wikipedia

✵ 27. mars 1879 – 25. mars 1973

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Edward Steichen: Citations en anglais

“Today, I am no longer concerned with photography as an art form. I believe it is potentially the best medium for explaining man to himself and his fellow man.”

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Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen (1967),, cited in: National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), ‎Carolyn Kinder Carr, ‎National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) (2003). Americans: paintings and photographs from the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, Deel 3. p. 207

“Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. [It is] a major force in explaining man to man.”

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Quoted in Time Magazine, "To Catch the Instant" http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,874339,00.html, 7 April 1961