Edward Steichen
♂ American, born Luxembourg. 1879–1973
Edward worked at MoMA from about 1942 to 1962 as Curator, Designer, Arranger and Competition Judge , and he was head of the Department of Photography from 1947–1962 . He has been in 49 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1932 and 1988.
88 exhibitions
EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
Murals by American Painters and Photographers
3–31 May 1932
Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Stuart Davis, among others, were involved.
Objects: 1900 and Today
10–25 April 1933
Edward Steichen, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson, among others, were involved.
Photography 1839–1937
17 March to 18 April 1937
Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.
Three Centuries of American Art
24 May to 31 July 1938
Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.
Sixty Photographs: A Survey of Camera Esthetics
31 December 1940 to 12 January 1941
Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.
Isadora Duncan: Drawings, Photographs, Memorabilia
21 October 1941 to 10 January 1942
Edward Steichen, Auguste Rodin, André Dunoyer de Segonzac and John Sloan, among others, were involved.
Road to Victory
21 May to 4 October 1942
Edward Steichen, Herbert Bayer, Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein, among others, were involved.
Portraits
4 November to 7 December 1943
Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.
Photography
24 May to 17 September 1944
Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.
Power in the Pacific: Battle Photographs of our Navy in Action on the Sea and in the Sky
23 January to 20 March 1945
Edward Steichen, Victor Jorgensen, G. E. Kidder Smith and Roark Bradford, among others, were involved.
20 June 1945 to 23 June 1946
Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.
Alfred Stieglitz Exhibition: His Collection
10 June to 31 August 1947
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne and Edward Steichen, among others, were involved.
Three Young Photographers
30 September to 7 December 1947
Edward Steichen, Wayne Miller, Homer Page and Leonard McCombe were involved.
Music and Musicians
16 December 1947 to 23 February 1948
Edward Steichen, W. Eugene Smith, Gjon Mili and Philippe Halsman, among others, were involved.
In and Out of Focus: A Survey of Today's Photography
6 April to 11 July 1948
Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Walker Evans and Berenice Abbott, among others, were involved.
50 Photographs by 50 Photographers
27 July to 26 September 1948
Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.
50 Photographs by 50 Photographers
27 July to 26 September 1948
Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.
Photo-Secession (American Photography 1902–1910)
29 September to 28 November 1948
Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Clarence H. White and Alvin Langdon Coburn, among others, were involved.
Photo-Secession (American Photography 1902–1910)
29 September to 28 November 1948
Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Clarence H. White and Alvin Langdon Coburn, among others, were involved.
Photographs by Bill Brandt, Harry Callahan, Ted Croner, Lisette Model
30 November 1948 to 10 February 1949
Edward Steichen, Harry Callahan, Lisette Model and Bill Brandt, among others, were involved.
The Exact Instant
8 February to 1 May 1949
Edward Steichen, Dorothea Lange, René d'Harnoncourt and W. Eugene Smith, among others, were involved.
Roots of Photography
26 April to 24 July 1949
Edward Steichen, Julia Margaret Cameron, David Octavius Hill and William Henry Fox Talbot, among others, were involved.
Realism in Photography
26 July to 25 September 1949
Edward Steichen, Frederick Sommer, Ralph Steiner and Wayne Miller, among others, were involved.
Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Helen Levitt, Dorothea Lange, Tana Hoban, Esther Bubley, and Hazel-Frieda Larsen
11 October to 15 November 1949
Edward Steichen, Dorothea Lange, Helen Levitt and Margaret Bourke-White, among others, were involved.
Polio Poster Competition
31 October to 20 November 1949
Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Philip Johnson, among others, were involved.
Roots of French Photography
29 November 1949 to 15 January 1950
Edward Steichen, Honoré Daumier, Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) and Édouard-Denis Baldus, among others, were involved.
Photographs of Picasso by Gjon Mili and by Robert Capa
24 January to 19 March 1950
Edward Steichen, Gjon Mili and Robert Capa were involved.
Color Photography
9 May to 4 July 1950
Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.
Color Photography
9 May to 4 July 1950
Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.
Photographs by Lewis Carroll
26 September to 3 December 1950
Edward Steichen and Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) were involved.
Korea - The Impact of War in Photographs
13 February to 22 April 1951
Edward Steichen, Homer Page, David Douglas Duncan and Ralph Crane, among others, were involved.
Abstraction in Photography
1 May to 4 July 1951
Edward Steichen, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.
Abstraction in Photography
1 May to 4 July 1951
Edward Steichen, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.
12 July to 12 August 1951
Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.
Forgotten Photographers
23 August to 4 November 1951
Edward Steichen, Homer Page, Edward S. Curtis and Darius Kinsey, among others, were involved.
Memorable Life Photographs
20 November to 12 December 1951
Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson, W. Eugene Smith and Margaret Bourke-White, among others, were involved.
Christmas Photographs
29 November 1951 to 6 January 1952
Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Edward Weston and Berenice Abbott, among others, were involved.
Five French Photographers
18 December 1951 to 24 February 1952
Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassaï (Gyula Halász) and Robert Doisneau, among others, were involved.
Diogenes with a Camera
20 May to 1 September 1952
Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Harry Callahan and W. Eugene Smith, among others, were involved.
5–18 August 1952
Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.
5–18 August 1952
Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.
Always the Young Strangers
26 February to 1 April 1953
Edward Steichen, Roy DeCarava, Shirley C. Burden and Leon Levinstein, among others, were involved.
Postwar European Photography
26 May to 23 August 1953
Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank and Bill Brandt, among others, were involved.
The Family of Man
24 January to 8 May 1955
Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, among others, were involved.
The Family of Man
24 January to 8 May 1955
Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, among others, were involved.
Diogenes with a Camera III
17 January to 18 March 1956
Edward Steichen, Walker Evans, Paul Strand and Kathleen Haven, among others, were involved.
Diogenes with a Camera IV
4 April to 3 June 1956
Edward Steichen, William A. Garnett, Shirley C. Burden and Marie-Jean Beraud-Villars, among others, were involved.
Language of the Wall: Parisian Graffiti Photographed by Brassaï
24 October 1956 to 13 January 1957
Edward Steichen, Kathleen Haven and Brassaï (Gyula Halász) were involved.
70 Photographers Look at New York
27 November 1957 to 15 April 1958
Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Berenice Abbott and Helen Levitt, among others, were involved.
70 Photographers Look at New York
27 November 1957 to 15 April 1958
Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Berenice Abbott and Helen Levitt, among others, were involved.
Photographs from the Museum Collection
26 November 1958 to 18 January 1959
Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and John Szarkowski, among others, were involved.
Photographs from the Museum Collection
26 November 1958 to 18 January 1959
Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and John Szarkowski, among others, were involved.
30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum
18–29 November 1959
Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and John Szarkowski, among others, were involved.
17 February to 10 April 1960
Edward Steichen, László Moholy-Nagy, Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz, among others, were involved.
Portraits from the Museum Collection
4 May to 18 September 1960
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and William S. Lieberman, among others, were involved.
Art Nouveau
8 June to 6 September 1960
Pablo Picasso, Edward Steichen, Vasily Kandinsky and Arthur Drexler, among others, were involved.
1–16 October 1960
Edward Steichen, Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Harry Callahan, among others, were involved.
1–16 October 1960
Edward Steichen, Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Harry Callahan, among others, were involved.
Steichen the Photographer
28 March to 30 May 1961
Edward Steichen and René d'Harnoncourt were involved.
Steichen the Photographer
28 March to 30 May 1961
Edward Steichen and René d'Harnoncourt were involved.
Diogenes with a Camera V
26 September to 12 November 1961
Edward Steichen, Kathleen Haven, Bill Brandt and Grace M. Mayer, among others, were involved.
Harry Callahan and Robert Frank
30 January to 1 April 1962
Edward Steichen, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank and Kathleen Haven, among others, were involved.
3 April to 15 May 1962
Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.
The Bitter Years: 1935–1941
18 October to 25 November 1962
Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, among others, were involved.
The Photographer and the American Landscape
24 September to 1 December 1963
Edward Steichen, John Szarkowski, Arthur Drexler and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.
Edward Steichen Photography Center
Started 27 May 1964
Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.
The Photographer's Eye
27 May to 23 August 1964
Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.
Glamour Portraits
2 August to 19 September 1965
Edward Steichen, John Szarkowski, Man Ray and Irving Penn, among others, were involved.
Steichen Gallery Reinstallation
Started 25 October 1967
Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.
Photography as Printmaking
19 March to 27 May 1968
Edward Steichen, Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.
9 July to 28 September 1969
Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.
Photo Eye of the 20s
4 June to 8 September 1970
Max Ernst, Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.
The Artist as Adversary
1 July to 27 September 1971
Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Georges Rouault, among others, were involved.
Clarence H. White
21 July to 27 September 1971
Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Clarence H. White and Peter C. Bunnell were involved.
Photographs of Women
7 September to 30 November 1971
Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz, among others, were involved.
Collage and the Photo-Image
11 July to 11 September 1973
Joan Miró, Jasper Johns, Max Ernst and Edward Steichen, among others, were involved.
Steichen: The Master Prints, 1895–1914
14 February to 28 March 1978
Edward Steichen and Dennis Longwell were involved.
Art of the Twenties
14 November 1979 to 22 January 1980
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.
In the Twenties: Portraits from the Photography Collection
14 November 1979 to 16 March 1980
Edward Steichen, Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.
Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation
Started 21 December 1979
Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.
Started 23 October 1980
Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, Jasper Johns and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.
American Landscapes
9 July to 4 October 1981
Edward Steichen, John Szarkowski, Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz, among others, were involved.
Still Life
8 October 1981 to 3 January 1982
Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.
From the Gilman Collection: Photographs Preserved in Ink
15 November 1984 to 3 March 1985
Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski and Man Ray, among others, were involved.
Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 1840–1985
7 November 1985 to 7 January 1986
Edward Steichen, Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.
Variants
12 December 1985 to 11 March 1986
Edward Steichen, John Szarkowski, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.
Picturing "Greatness"
14 January to 17 April 1988
Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz, among others, were involved.