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Lot 5PROPERTY FROM THE THOMAS WALTHER COLLECTION
Perception is a mental process that merely registers just as the lens registers. The good photographer not only sees -- he looks and in the process of looking, insight is developed to the point where the object looks back at the photographer -- and together they make the photo.
EDWARD STEICHEN
Perception is a mental process that merely registers just as the lens registers. The good photographer not only sees -- he looks and in the process of looking, insight is developed to the point where the object looks back at the photographer -- and together they make the photo.
EDWARD STEICHEN
EDWARD STEICHEN (1879-1973)
Katherine Cornell, 1924
Fermé13 November 2007
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Born in Germany in 1898 and raised in New York, Katherine Cornell earned the nickname 'The First Lady of the American Theater' honouring a career spanning 30 years on the stage. In 1948 Cornell won Broadway's Tony Award for Best Dramatic Actress for her role as Cleopatra in a revival of William Shakespeare's 'Antony and Cleopatra'.
According to Joanna Steichen: 'Steichen had much in common with the successful actors he photographed....[He] had great respect for the actors who, like Katherine Cornell, fully inhabited their roles and seemed simply to become the characters they played' (Steichen's Legacy,pp.323-33).
According to Joanna Steichen: 'Steichen had much in common with the successful actors he photographed....[He] had great respect for the actors who, like Katherine Cornell, fully inhabited their roles and seemed simply to become the characters they played' (Steichen's Legacy,pp.323-33).