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Dana
Dana

Dana

Edward Steichen (American (born in Luxembourg), 1879–1973)
about 1923
Medium/TechniquePhotograph, palladium and gum bichromate combination print
DimensionsSheet: 25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Virginia Herrick Deknatel
Accession number2001.11
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPhotographs
Description
From its very beginnings, photography has been recognized as an ideal tool for recording the likenesses of friends and loved ones. The most compelling portraits often reflect the relationship between the artist and sitter. Like Alfred Stieglitz, whose images of Georgia O'Keeffe may have inspired the look of this sensitive palladium portrait, Edward Steichen took a series of intimate portraits of a woman he was close to, Dana Desboro. This pensive picture of the beautiful young actress who later became his second wife was made not long after the two first met in 1923. Dana's dreamy expression and tousled hair are skillfully rendered in soft, natural light in a style very different from the glamorous artifice of Steichen's studio portraiture and fashion-magazine work of the period.
ProvenanceJoanna Steichen; Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY; purchased January 2001.
Copyright© 2014 The Estate of Edward Steichen / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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