Edward Jean Steichen was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and curator, renowned as one of the most prolific and influential figures in the history of photography.
Rodin — The Thinker (1902) by Steichen
The Flatiron Building,1904, photograph by Edward Steichen
Young American Artists of the Modern School, left to right Jo Davidson, Edward Steichen, Arthur B. Carles, John Marin; back: Marsden Hartley, Laurence Fellows, c. 1911, Bates College Museum of Art
The Family of Man was an ambitious exhibition of 503 photographs from 68 countries curated by Edward Steichen, the director of the New York City Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA) department of photography. According to Steichen, the exhibition represented the "culmination of his career". The title was taken from a line in a Carl Sandburg poem.
Poster for the Exhibition The Family of Man in three languages
Robert McDaniels, lynched April 13, 1937, in Duck Hill, Mississippi
Migrant Mother (1936), Dorothea Lange