Edward Steichen: lives in photography

Preface and acknowledgments / William A. Ewing and Todd Brandow

Introduction: "A boy who has new ideas" / William A. Ewing

Steichen as symbolist

Plates: 1895 1914

Peinture à la lumière: 1898 1907 / Ronald J. Gedrim

Steichen in camera work / Catherine Coleman

Plates: 1915-1922

Finding the real magician light itself: Voulangis, 1908-22 / Ronald J. Gedrim

Edward Steichen: a passion for color / Pamela G. Roberts

Steichen as modernist

Plates: 1922-1939

The modernist fashion: Steichen's commercial photography between the wars / Patricia Johnston

The soul of the photographer / Joanna T. Steichen

Plates: 1940-1955

Edward Steichen as exhibition designer / Olivier Lugon

Steichen then, now, and again: legacies of an icon / A. D. Coleman.