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When Edward was 14, he began a lithography apprenticeship at the American Fine Art Company of Milwaukee. There he learned to draw, sketch, and paint.
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Steichen and some of his friends who were also interested in drawing and photography put their money togeher and rented a small room in the Milwaukee office building. They called themselves the Milwaukee Art Students League.
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Edward was set on being a painter, but in 1896 his father gave him his first camera and then he was hooked.
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Started studying with a local photographer
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Entered his first exhabition in 1899 at the Second Salon of Philadelphia
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Went to New York in 1902, where he sold some of his work to Stieglitz. The two became good friends.
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Steichen moved to paris to continue to study paint and photography. He was principal in the pictorial movement and one of the founders of photo-secession
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Commanded the Photographic Division of Aerial Photography during WWI.
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In 1918, Steichen decided to burn all of his paintings and focus soley on photography.
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After the war, his style changed from impressionistic style photos to sharp and close up still lives. He continued to take portraits though
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After his write up in Vanity Fair's magazine, he was appointed cheif photographer for Conde Nast publications. This gave him the opportunity to travel to Europe and shoot fashion, and famous writers, artists, and politicians. These were published in Vogue and Vanity Fair magazines, and he was known as the best in his field.
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Was written up in Vanity Fair as the worlds best portrait photographer.
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By 1938 he had saved up enough money to close down his shop and move to France. There he intended on spending time as a horticulturist.
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In 1942 he was called back into duty where he was once again te Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy of photographing the naval aspects of war.
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In 1945 Edward Steichen became the director of the U.S. Naval Photographic Institute
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After the war he became the director of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art. Here he was part of the most popular exhabition in the history of photography, The Family of Man.
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The Edward Steichen Photography Center was established in the museum.
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Edward Steichen died in West Redding, Connecticut, on March 25th, 1973.
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