Between the Walls, New York

Edward J. Steichen

ca. 1922 · Palladium print · Photographs

After World War I Steichen gave up painting and returned to photography with renewed vigor. Partly as a result of his work in aerial reconnaissance during the war and partly because of the aesthetic modernism then advocated by his friend and mentor Alfred Stieglitz, his photographs became increasingly sharp and unmanipulated-in striking contrast to the soft focus and complex processing that characterized his photographs at the turn of the century.

Artist

Edward J. Steichen

Date

ca. 1922

Medium

Palladium print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Gift of Grace M. Mayer, 1991