Landscapes, architecture, theater and dance, war photography—all appear ... readers of Vogue mostly gave way to color and spontaneity. But as Edward Steichen in High Fashion proves, his pictures ...

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.

Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/In-Vogue.html At 62 years old, Edward Steichen convinced the U.S. Navy to let him gather a team of ...