Before Edward Steichen joined the U.S. Navy in January ... beyond his ambition to be a war photographer, he wanted to help resist German aggression. He was proud of his service; for years ...

Edward Steichen convinced the U.S. Navy to let him gather a team of photographers to capture the men serving their country in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Who Was the Real Cleopatra?

Which was why, in 1903, the painter Fedor Encke hired a young photographer named Edward Steichen to take Morgan’s picture as a kind of cheat sheet for a portrait Encke was trying to finish.