born in 1879 in Luxembourg, but soon moved to the United States. At 16 he started as a photographer and at 21 he went to Paris to study painting. In New York joined the American photographer Alfred Stieglitz and opened the Gallery 291, room in which they performed his first shows some of the most famous painters of the twentieth century. The following year Steichen returned to Paris, where he experimented with painting and photography, among other things. 1923 returned to New York as chief photographer for Vanity Fair and Vogue. Among the famous people he photographed for the first, are Greta Garbo and Charlie Chaplin. In 1938 he retired to his farm in West Redding, Connecticut. During World War II led a combat photography team of the United States Navy. In 1947 he was appointed director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MOMA). In 1955 prepared the photographic exhibition The Family of Man, which later toured the world. His works can be admired at the Museum of Modern Art and the Eastman House in Rochester, New York. died in 1973.
This photographer sought emotional and impressionistic interpretation in their themes and fought for photography was recognized as a formal expression of art.
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