【50摄影大师介绍】之九,爱德华·斯泰肯 Edward Steichen

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【50摄影大师介绍】之九,爱德华·斯泰肯 Edward Steichen简介

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50 Masters of Photography (9) --- Edward Steichen

Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973, American photographer, b. Luxembourg, reared in Hancock, Mich. Steichen is credited with the transformation of photography into an art form. At 16, while apprenticed as a lithographer, he taught himself photography and painted in his spare time. Studying art in Paris, he sought painterly effects in his photography, becoming an enormously successful portrait photographer. In New York City he was associated with Alfred Stieglitz in the founding of the "291" and Photo-Secession galleries. At "291" he brought works by Cézanne, Rodin, Picasso, and Matisse to American attention. Back in Paris, Steichen made botanical experiments, a lifelong passion; he was later to win added renown as a cros*****reeder of flowers.

During World War I Steichen was instrumental in the development of aerial photography. Fascinated by the technical potential of the medium, he produced pictures remarkable for their clarity, detail, and expressive use of light. From 1923 to 1938 he worked as a portrait and fashion photographer for Condé Nast publications and opened a commercial studio. At this time he made superb photomurals, including those of the George Washington Bridge. During World War II, he was placed in command of naval combat photography.

Steichen was later director of the department of photography of the Museum of Modern Art (1947-62). In this capacity he organized the Family of Man exhibition (1955) to "mirror the essential oneness of mankind"; it is considered the greatest photographic exposition ever mounted. During his time at the museum, Steichen had virtually abandoned his own work; but in his last years he filmed the effect of the passing seasons on a flowering shadblow tree. Steichen's creative imagination and his extraordinarily powerful imagery forged for him and for his medium an honored place among the fine arts.

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lauya

爱德华斯泰肯早期最牛X的作品中，我最喜欢的是《熨斗大厦 Flatiron》这幅（第一张）；美轮美奂的色彩，强烈立体感的构图，画面中朦胧的透视效果，雨后湿漉漉地面上的青色反光使我产生了停留在现实与梦境交界处的错乱感觉！如果不经提示，很难想到这幅作品并非出自19世纪晚期某位油画大师之手而是由一个年轻人在1904年创作出的摄影作品！

提升摄影的艺术地位，使其脱离单纯追求准确记录的阶段，得到应有的美学界的认知是以爱德华斯泰肯为主成员的画派摄影主义者（Pictorialism）一百多年前就竭力奋争的目标。这幅作品联同爱德华的另一传世之作《池畔月色The Pond-Moonlight》反映了那一时期爱德华为此做出的不懈努力和重要贡献，是公认的反映这一时期最具代表的巅峰之作！

凭借着少年时期的绘画功底和青少年时期的印刷工作上技术的掌握，埃德华是出色的将天然彩色相片技术（色彩涂料和反光化学材料结合使用）运用到图片后期处理上使之达到极高艺术水准的始作俑者。今天，当我们为刚刚学会了能在Photoshop里将彩照转换成有油画效果沾沾自喜时，斯泰肯一百多年前已做出的成就能不使我们折服吗？

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	50 摄影大师介绍之一	安塞尔·亚当斯 Ansel Easton Adam
	50 摄影大师介绍之二	爱德华·韦斯顿 Edward Henry Weston
	50 摄影大师介绍之三三	格丽特·伯克-怀特 Margaret Bourke-White
	50 摄影大师介绍之四	盖伦.罗威尔 Galen Rowell
	50 摄影大师介绍之五	朵洛西亚·蓝吉 Dorothea Lange
	50 摄影大师介绍之六	阿尔弗雷德·斯蒂格里茨 Alfred Stieglitz
	50 摄影大师介绍之七	罗伯特·杜瓦诺 Robert Doisneau
	50 摄影大师介绍之八	黛安·阿勃斯 Diane Arbus
	50 摄影大师介绍之九	爱德华·斯泰肯 Edward Steichen