Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

Edward Steichen: In High Fashion

Edward Steichen (1879-1973) is one of the most prolific, influential and controversial photographers of the 20th century. This exhibition is the first comprehensive presentation of Steichen’s work made for the fashion and glamour industry. Between the two world wars, this well-known artist – famous both as a painter and a photographer on both sides of the Atlantic from 1900 on – revolutionized fashion photography in his role of chief photographer for Condé Nast’s influential and highly regarded magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair. He was soon known as “the most famous portrait photographer in the world”.

From 1923 to 1937, Steichen produced a body of work of unequaled brilliance, putting his exceptional talents and prodigious energies to work dramatizing and glamorizing contemporary culture and its foremost achievers – in politics, literature, sport, dance, theater, opera and, above all, the world of high fashion. The images he produced for Condé Nast’s magazines count among the most striking creations of 20th-century photography.

“Edward Steichen: In High Fashion”, is produced by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Minneapolis, and the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne.

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