Edward Steichen's socialism
‘Millennia1 girls’ and the construction of genius
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14695000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melinda Boyd Parsons (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 317-333 |
| Publication date | 1993-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Photography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-7298 • E-ISSN: 2150-7295 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03087298.1993.10442314 |
| OpenAlex | W843677366 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
In early 1908 Edward Steichen's sister Lilian — poet, essayist, and committed socialist — entered into an intensive correspondence with her new beau Carl Sandburg, also a poet and socia1ist.1 In February, she sent Sandburg a copy of The Century Magazine with an article about Edward Steichen.2 In describing her brother, she told Sandburg ‘One thing I have done for my brother. I've helped make a socialist of him — just as I helped make one of mother. And I hope someday brother will help the movement with his art. He photographed the leading socialists at the Stuttgart Convention last August [I907] — something may come of that’.3 Towards the end of 1908, something actually did ‘come of that’: Steichen's portraits of socialists were published by the prominent American socialist Robert Hunter, in his widely read book Socialists at Work (figures 1 and 2).4
Art · Art history · Brother · Communism · Performance art · Political science · Politics · Portrait · Sister · Socialism · American History and Culture · Anarchism and Radical Politics · Canadian Identity and History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2005 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |