The Flatiron
Photographer: Edward Steichen
Date: 1904
Location: Flatiron Building, NYC, USA
Edward Steichen photographed the Flatiron Building in New York City during winter twilight in 1904, capturing the triangular building through bare tree branches with a gum bichromate over platinum printing process that gave the image an atmospheric, painterly quality. The image was published in Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Notes and contributed to Steichen's reputation as a leading pictorialist photographer. Steichen later rejected the soft-focus pictorialist style and became a pioneering modernist photographer, serving as chief of the photographic division of the U.S. Army during World War II and later as director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, where he organized the landmark 'Family of Man' exhibition in 1955.
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