Edward Steichen

By the way, what was the, what was, [laughs] what was the suggestion? W- how do you do that?

Well, this was, uh, taught by a woman named Joanna Steichen, who was Edward Steichen's wife, the famous photographer.

Her claim to fame was that she had married money because he was a pretty wealthy photographer, and she would give you all kinds of tips.

And, and I mean, literally, this, we had auditoriums of four to 500 people-

And it's essentially through the images within the Voyager, images put together by Frank Drake and Carl Sagan that led me to the Family of Man, you know, alongside-

The exhibition at MoMA, the Edward Steichen curated exhibition at MoMA.

Edward Steichen curated exhibition that traveled, you know-

Yep

... first 1955 travels 63 countries.

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in the mid to late nineteen twenties, where she suddenly is working as a fashion model for the most celebrated photographers of the time, including the chief photographer at Vogue, Edward Steichen.

Yeah, she's only nineteen years old at this time, and Edward Steichen indeed is one of the photographers.

He takes some photographs of her.

He then ends up-- This is a particular, another famous story about Lee Miller.

Now, Tony Penrose says that this is one of the first times that a specific photograph had ever been used to advertise these, at that time, quite taboo product.

I think initially she's outraged by this, and her family are, but they realize that she signed a release form.

This image by Steichen has been licensed.