Edward Steichen The Early Years

"Joel Smith's catalog essay provides a thought provoking review of the dynamics at play when Stieglitz worked in photography at the turn of the last century. His analysis leads the reader to the recently assembled compendium of CAMERA WORK and the museum's own photography gallery. The significant contribution of EDWARD STEICHEN: THE EARLY WORK is the contextualization between two men and the photographic experiments under taken by one of them in a search for a compelling representational language. Whether portraits or landscapes, the Steichen images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art show how powerful the search was, as they draw the viewer's eye into the space contained with and by Steichen's dark pictorial hues. "Smith, Joel is the author of 'Edward Steichen The Early Years' with ISBN 9780691048734 and ISBN 0691048738.