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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Mondaj, March 26, ( 1973 Steichen, Noted Lens Artist, Dies at 93 WEST BEDDING, CONN. Edward Steichen, the (AP) w ho master photographer helped raise the magic of the camera into an art form, died Sunday at his home. He was two days short of his 94th birthday. A winter who turned Steichen used the camera lens as an artist does ,hts pigment and brush. He ; conveyed subtleties of mood ; -- and emotion through control of , cross-breedin- g c r, photog--rapoe- "The gathered to- of photographs men, women and chddren taken the world ou-r- . 593 The exhibition has been m more than played countries. of the department of photography at the Museum of Modern Art from 1947 to 1962, when he became director A emeritus. retrospects e show of his work was held at the museum in 1961. Studied Painting At the age of 21 he set out To Pans to study painting. On the way he stopped in New York and saw Alfred Steiglitz,. a leader in the effort to get as photography recognized art. Steiglitz purchased several of Steichen's photographs and encouraged him to do 'more. Edward Steichen s Photographer-Plu- ice box is a thing of beauty. Sandburg once wrote that Steichen's definition of art was "the' taking of the essence of an object or an exnew perience and giving it a form so that it has an existence of its own and an essence of its own." dis- 37 In a similar vein, Steichen and his brother-in-laCarl and the poet Sandburg, biographer, collaborated on a "Hoad to Victory" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1943. From 10,000 prints, Steichen narrowed the selection to 130 that he thought reflected the spirit and quality of the American people. Sandburg contrib- uted the text. Steichen Smith in married Clara E. They were divorced in 1921. Two years later he wed Dana Desbro Glover, an actress, who died in 1957. In March 1960, he married Janna Taub, v To was many years younger than he was. Their wooden house, built to his own design, was called Umpawagh. It was located on a large estate with a big garden, a greenhouse and a pond dotted with water lillies. At a photographic exhibit in London in 1901 he met George Bernard Shaw who posed for him. He met the sculptor Rodm in Pans and after weeks of study posed him with his head outlined against his Victor Hugo statue and the famous The Thinker in the background. When he returned to New Yoik his photographs caught Steichen's primary tool was the 35 mm camera but he was fond of saying, "No one has ever exhausted the potentialities of a Brownie. as director Steichen served . collection, of Man," in year later. Idespread Display 1935 Famdy gether - ean Steichen was Luxembourg March 27, 1879. The family immigrated to Hancock, Mich., and later moved to Wisconsin. The boy left school at 15 to work as an apprentice designer for a lithographic company. He took his first photograph a erything from insects to cityscapes. He believed m using art to explain man to his fellow man W At the outbreak of World War I he was in France. He joined the Army Signal Cerps and pioneered in combat photography. He served in a similar capacity with the Navy during World War II. Edward born .light. ' Perhaps his greatest skill was in portraiture, but the ranee of his work covered ev His on with magazines. Century Magazine bought them, Everybody's magazine and Camera magazine published them. Joins Signal Corps In addition to photography, he was an ardent amateur He specialised horticulturist. in delphiniums. In a greenhouse on his estate the plants sprouted flowers so profusely they looked like bushes. 1903. Two Banks New York Housewife Fights Reduce Prime Rate West German Trial Order - The NEW YORK (UPI) to balk last two major banks at the request to lower their ded prime interest rate respc to administration arm twisting and agreed Sunday to hold the concentration camp guard rate at 6'2 percent instead of the b;,4 percent announced last he weighs a West German week. The Chase Manhattan Bank of New York, the country's third largest, and the Franklin National Bank, the 20th largest, announced they were temporarily reducing the prime which Is offered to rite to 64 perbest customers cent effective Monday. day for free- dom from a city jail while ! ; request Fighting - pro- - e Mrs. ceedings since Braunsteiner Ryan was arrested by L.S. after the foreign ministry in Eonn requested her extradition as a women who selected Jews to die in Her-min- 1971, marshals-Wednesda- gas chambers. Through her attorney, John J. Barry, she asked U S. District Judge Jacob Mishler Thursday to free her on bail, saymg she had "slept with prostitutes" at the Women's of Detention. House He de-- . dined an immediate ruling. came to this country ir was married to Russi-Ryan, a construction worker She 1957, i and obtained in 1958 U S. oti "I was pun zenship m 1963. ished enough, she once said her deportation hear-ingsuspended until the extradition request by Germaganization. The woman consented to the' ny and a smbsequent one by Poland are deciJed, concenrevocation three years later tration camp survivors testiand deportation proceedings were begun against her the fied against Mrs. Ryan. If returned to West Germafollowing year. Mrs. Ryan could be senand ny, did every"I my job a member ex served in Austria for mistre.v ment of concentration canq inmates. Arguing for bail. Barry said: "She intends to fight this all the way. In August, 1968. the government filed suit for revocation of her U.S. citizenship on the ground that she had fraudulently demed on immigration papers that she had even been arrested or convicted or been of a totalitarian Dut..ig or- thing I was supposed to do,, she said at a hearing May 8, 1972, adding that she had been a guard from 1939 to 1945 at the Ravensburck camp near Berlin, Lublin and Majdanek in Poland and Genthin in tenced to life imprisonment of murder. If returned to Poland, she could be sentenced to death. upon conviction REU.rvf.! many. Because of a legislature amnesty she received in 1957, she said, Mrs. Ryan had not disclosed a 1949 conviction and a three-yea- r she sentence i Kvz A mi' Kv::-aora-- pl Funeral arrangements were incomplete. The Museum of Modem Art said a memorial service would be held there at a time and date to be an-- ' nounccd. S' 4' 'Anrr . 1131 SAVINGS EARLY V A-- ' ' Steichen covered the specof photography from advertising photographs to portraiture to fashion photography for publications such as Vogue and Vanity Fair in the ; 1920s and 1930s. ; - "A thing is beautiful if it 'fulfills its purpose," he once said. 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