9th grade second period, Photography part 1
Edward Steichen
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Edward Steichen
ÑEdward Steichen, the son of Jean Pierre and Marie Kemp, was born in Luxembourg on 27th March 1879, only three years before his family migrated to the United States. In 1889, when Edward turned 10 they moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin
ÑSteichen was the Director at the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit during World War II and The Fighting Lady, his documentary was Best Documentaryat the Academy Award in 1945.
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Ñ Steichen remained the Director of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York after the war till 1962. He is acknowledged for an exhibition at MoMA which consisted of 500 photographs from 68 countries portraying love, death and life. The exhibition is permanently dwelling in Clervaux, Luxembourg. In 1962, John Szarkowski was appointed by Steichen to take his designation at MoMA.
ÑIn 1963, Lyndon Baines Johnson, the President of United States at that time, presented Steichen with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. After a decade, Steichen died and three years before his death Martin Boschet presented Steichen’s photographs during The Recontres d’Arles festival in 1970.
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