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Edward Steichen: In High Fashion - The Conde Nast Years, 1923-1937 Hardcover – October 11, 2008

by Todd Brandow (Author), William A. Ewing (Author)
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The most extensive collection of Steichen's legendary Vogue and Vanity Fair work ever brought to the public.

Edward Steichen was already a famous painter and photographer in America and abroad when, in early 1923, he was offered the most prestigious position in photography's commercial domain: that of chief photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair.Over the next fifteen years, Steichen would produce a body of work of unequaled brilliance, dramatizing and glamorizing contemporary culture and its achievers in politics, literature, film, sport, dance, theater, opera, and the world of high fashion. Here are iconic images of Gloria Swanson, Gary Cooper, Greta Garbo, and Charlie Chaplin as well as numerous other celebrities drawn from an archive of more than two thousand original prints. Until now, no more than a handful have been exhibited or published in book form. The photographs of the 1920s and 1930s represent the high point in Steichen's career and are among the most striking creations of twentieth-century photography. 242 illustrations
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    10.5 x 1.4 x 12.4 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0393066770
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Todd Brandow is the founding director of the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and in Paris.

William A. Ewing has been an author, lecturer, curator of photography and museum director for more than forty years. His many publications on photography include Landmark, Civilization (with Holly Roussell), Flora Photographica (with Danaé Panchaud), and Edward Burtynsky.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; Illustrated edition (October 11, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393066770
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393066777
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.46 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.5 x 1.4 x 12.4 inches
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Georgia
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommend
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2014
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Truly a beautiful book. I am always looking for high quality coffee table books with large (full page is always best) photographs. I like the text to be minimal, so that the images get a chance to shine in their own right. This book provides a wealth of images in a page after page format and the essays are short and easy to flip past. The pictures are almost full page, in that they have a slight white border and space beneath for a caption. The gallery style of presentation is very satisfying, though the book does leave you wanting more. With books such as these, the term "lavishly illustrated" seems to be bandied around to an almost comical extent. I always get a bit worried when I see a description like that because my idea of "lavishly illustrated" is not a few small to average sized images in the corner of a page full of text (with an occasional full pager to justify it all), no matter how stunning or rare those images may be. But I think it is safe to say this is "lavishly illustrated"! Only issue is that a sizeable number of portraits are of notables rather than of "high fashion", so in that sense you may feel cheated that images that would better suit what the title claims and evokes, aren't included. That being said, it is mostly of fashion photography, but do be prepared that many images are not. I also felt that his 1930s fashion work wasn't as well represented as his 1920s work. Just my opinion, others may differ. Also, some great art deco infused shots (like the still life of shoes, pianos, lighters...you know the stuff) that I expected to be included weren't, but portraits of Conrad Veidt and Noel Coward are. See what I mean? But that in no way detracts from the beauty of this book. The photography is sublime, though the quality of the prints vary, but that is to be expected.
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Franklin Kakies
5.0 out of 5 stars Steichen in VOGUE
Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2016
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Steichen was indisputably one of the greatest of the pioneering 20th century photographers. A painter, he brought his painter's eye to his work, the composition of which is nothing short of masterful. He treated fashion as a more than worthy subject, and lavished all his skills in equal measure upon it. Steichen often made these abstract compositions using negative space and other backgrounds in which the subject being photographed becomes one of the elements of the composition, and this is one of his signatures. The book is beautifully produced and the photographs chronicle a vanished and dazzling world to perfection.
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R. Gale
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding!
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2009
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This is an outstanding book, and really shows how Steichen contributed so much to what we think of as fashion and glamor photography. The reproduction of the photos is excellent. Because these photos originally appeared in magazines, I would bet that they look better here than they did in those original publications. There's not a lot of text, but what there is is certainly informative and interesting. Highly recommended!
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Lainey
5.0 out of 5 stars The photos and descriptions in this book are fabulous. ...
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2014
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The photos and descriptions in this book are fabulous. I bought it as a gift, but wish I had gotten one for myself as well. Okay, I cheated, I went through it twice before I gave it as a gift.
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ERALDO SAURO
5.0 out of 5 stars Fashion
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2013
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Edward Steichen In High Fashion is a lovely book that shows of the Photographer commercial talent of the period.
I found it informative, with images that show how hard one had to work to produce wonderful images with the technology available at the time.
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Norma
5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2018
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Absolutely stunning black and white photos from the 20's and 30's. Great coffee table book for artists.
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Andrey B. Vorobyov
5.0 out of 5 stars Best reproduction quality I ever saw!
Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2010
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Magnificent photos, outstanding reproduction quality (quadro-tone).
The articles are informative and short, as it should be.
It is extremely interesting what the one of the best pictorialist of the world (may be the best one) could do in fashion. Highly recommended!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Steichen Rules!
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2016
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The Steichen is brilliant, unfortunately the Demarchelier failed to arrive!
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Jerome Tanguay
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on April 12, 2018
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fabulous!
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Sweetly
5.0 out of 5 stars A book to treasure, wonderful
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 25, 2019
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This is one of those books that will be treasured for many years. Fantastic photographs.
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Cire
5.0 out of 5 stars An absolutly great book not only about Photography but about Fashion history too
Reviewed in Germany on September 20, 2018
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This book is a must have not only for the Fans of Edward Streichen but for everyone who is interested in great photography. There is no way around Edward Streichen. He is the Master who helped to set the stage for the Modern Fashion Photography and Photography in General as it is today.
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spook
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Photos!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 22, 2013
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This excellent hard back book contains a wonderful collection of high fashion photographs taken by a master of the genre.
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Rp Dupont
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome pics
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 3, 2010
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A beautiful book, with amazing photos, some I never seen before, very unusual celebrity shots.
Lighting and quality of the grain are of rare beauty.
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