"Photo-Secession"

Edward J. Steichen

1905 · Woodcut with gilt paper · Photographs

In connection with the inauguration of the galleries in the fall of 1905, Steichen created a poster showing a photographer silhouetted against a green field beneath a glimmering orb. Although Steichen's design suggests that the photographer is a hunter who stalks his prey in a moonlit landscape, the actual model, a snapshot of Stieglitz hard at work on a city bridge with a Graflex camera, shows the telling difference between Stieglitz's more urgent urban vision and Steichen's more serene and sylvan poetics.

Artist

Edward J. Steichen

Date

1905

Medium

Woodcut with gilt paper

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library