"Photo-Secession"
Edward J. Steichen American, born Luxembourg
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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.
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