Preface and acknowledgments / William A. Ewing and Todd Brandow
Introduction: "A boy who has new ideas" / William A. Ewing
Peinture à la lumière: 1898 1907 / Ronald J. Gedrim
Steichen in camera work / Catherine Coleman
Finding the real magician light itself: Voulangis, 1908-22 / Ronald J. Gedrim
Edward Steichen: a passion for color / Pamela G. Roberts
The modernist fashion: Steichen's commercial photography between the wars / Patricia Johnston
The soul of the photographer / Joanna T. Steichen
Edward Steichen as exhibition designer / Olivier Lugon
Steichen then, now, and again: legacies of an icon / A. D. Coleman.