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[Portrait Of Joanna Taub Steichen]
1959. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, annotated “Photo by E.S.” and dated “Autumn 1959”, most likely by Joanna Steichen in pencil, 24.4 x 16.4cm. Minor stains to margins. Brooklyn-born Joanna Taub Steichen (1933-2010), after graduating from Smith College, worked as a copywriter in New York where she was introduced to “world-renowned photographer Edward Steichen by his brother-in-law, poet Carl Sandburg. She married Steichen at the age of twenty-seven [in 1959]; he was eighty. After his death in 1973 she became the guardian and gatekeeper of Steichen’s legacy and his work.” Her publications include an important survey of his work. Ref: NY Times, 7.8.2010.
Item #CL191-162
Price (AUD): $3,300.00 other currencies