Friday, March 27, 2009

To see, so I can feel . . .

If you are in New York March 26-29 be sure to visit my FB friend Alex Novak at the AIPAD Show. You can visit with him at the Contemporary Works/Vintage Works booth #221. The AIPAD show is at the Park Ave. Armory in NYC, USA. Please take a few moments to visit at his websites www.iphotocentral.com  and www.vintageworks.net - you may be pleasantly surprised.

Today is the birthday of Edward Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973), photographer and painter.

In 1902 a group of photographers, including Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Myra Wiggins, Clarence White, Gertrude Kasebier and Alvin Longdon Coburn, broke away from the Camera Club of New York, to establish what became known as the Photosecession Group.

Members of the group were involved in the production of the photography journal, Camera Work (1903-17) and in 1910 sponsored an international show of more than 500 photographs. 

The Pond-Moonlight (1904)
Edward Steichen

In February 2006, a copy of Edward Steichen's early pictorialist photograph, The Pond-Moonlight (1904), sold for what was then the highest price ever paid for a photograph at auction, U.S. $2.9 million.

"Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things." - Edward Steichen

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