{"product_id":"steichen-the-master-prints-1895-1914-the-symbolist-period","title":"Steichen: The Master Prints, 1895-1914 - The Symbolist Period","description":"180 pp. Includes 73 plates (6 in color) and 18 text illustrations. From dust jacket: \"The surviving photographs printed by Edward Steichen during the turn-of-the-century years are works of unparalleled richness in the history of the medium. These transcendent compositions on paper present sumptuous surfaces and subtle color tones and shadings that confound the usual preconceptions of what a photograph looks like. Steichen produced these masterworks through a variety of enormously time-consuming printing techniques, some of them now almost forgotten. These early original prints are few in number - less than one hundred - and a significant portion of the images exist only in a unique print. In this volume, seventy-three of the early photographs are meticulously reproduced to re-create as precisely as possible the look and the effect of Steichen's own master prints. This book charts a critical appreciation of these works and appraises their meaning for the history of photography, considering them in the context of the collaboration between Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz that changed the direction of modern art in America. Dennis Longwell sets forth the formative influences on Steichen and explores for the first time the relationship between the early prints and the dominant art movement of the late nineteenth century, Symbolism. In Mr. Longwell's view, Symbolism rather than Impressionism shaped the basic aesthetic that permeated the creative efforts of Steichen and other members of the 'Photo-Secession' directed by Stieglitz. In the light of a close reading of letters and other documents, Mr. Longwell reexamines the Secessionist movement and suggests that, in American photography, Steichen's master prints form the basis of a Symbolist tradition that has remained vital up to the present day.\"","brand":"The Museum of Modern Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39544739266630,"sku":"2317002","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2317002.jpg?v=1634745099","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/steichen-the-master-prints-1895-1914-the-symbolist-period","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}