Luxembourgian-American photographer, painter, and curator (born 1879)

Edward Steichen

Edward Jean Steichen was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter and curator and a pioneer of fashion photography. His gown images for the magazine Art et Décoration in 1911 were the first modern fashion photographs to be published. From 1923 to 1938, Steichen served as chief photographer for the Condé Nast magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair, designating him the “greatest living portrait photographer” even as he turned to painting. Steichen worked for many advertising agencies, including J.

Born

1879

March 27

Died

1973

Era

1870s

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Edward, in brief

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1879 Born
1973 Died

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1309 Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized Ferrara, a papal fiefdom.
1329 Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
1625 Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.

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The world in 1973

When Edward departed

april 1 Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Jim Corbett National Park, India.
april 10 Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 crashes in a snowstorm on approach to Basel, Switzerland, killing 108 people.
april 19 The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.
april 28 The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number one on the US Billboard chart, beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on March 27

Andrei Kozyrev 1951– Belgian-Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia George Giffen 1859–1927 Australian cricketer and footballer (died 1927) Georgios Katrougalos 1963– Greek jurist and politician Jakob Sverdrup 1845– Norwegian bishop and politician, Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs (died 1899) John Sulston 1942– English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018) Karl Mannheim 1893–1947 Hungarian-English sociologist and academic (born 1893) Kathleen Scott 1878–1947 English sculptor (born 1878) Kenta Kobashi 1967– Japanese professional wrestler Mstislav Rostropovich 1927–2007 Russian cellist and conductor (born 1927)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1879

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 German-American physicist, engineer, and academic (born 1879) Albert Asher 1879– New Zealand rugby player (died 1965) Alfred Korzybski 1879– Polish-American mathematician, linguist, and philosopher (died 1950) Annie Kenney 1879– leading British suffragette (died 1953) Benjamin R. Jacobs 1879–1963 American biochemist (born 1879) Boris Savinkov 1879– Russian soldier and author (died 1925) Carlos Chagas 1879–1934 Brazilian physician and parasitologist (died 1934) Edward Bruce 1879–1318 American lawyer and painter (died 1943) Joe Hill 1879–1915 Swedish-born American labor activist (born 1879)

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