Edward Steichen (American, 1879-1973)
Gloria Swanson
Born in Luxembourg, Edward Steichen and his family moved to the American Midwest while he was just a toddler.Throughout the 1890's, Steichen pursued his artistic ambitions in painting, and in the 1895, bought his first camera; becoming a driving force behind the first school of Milwaukee. In the fall of 1900, Steichen went to London where he met the American photographers Fredrick Holland Day and Alvin Langston Coburn and participated in the New School of American Photography exhibition organized by Day.
This photo is interesting because the black and white color contrast is appealing to the eye. Even though the print over the picture is interesting in its self, the fact that her eyes can still pull you in is intriguing.
Steichen’s portrait of Gloria Swanson has taken on iconic masterpiece status overtime. Created in 1924, just as the first feature-length sound movies were emerging—effectively truncating the actress’s brilliant silent-film career—this image caught the essential Gloria Swanson.
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