Edward Steichen

Katharine Cornell and Basil Rathbone as 'Romeo and Juliet' in the Broadway production

George Gershwin

Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg - actress and head of production for MCM.

Isadora Duncan at the steps of the Parthenon

1897-1973. American photographer in both world wars, and also an innovative fashion and portrait photographer.

**Continued*** He was born in Luxembourg and came to the US in 1881 and became a US citizen in 1901. Steichen was actually a painter before he became a photographer. In 1905 with Alfred Stieglitz, he helped create the 'Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession'.

I'm a big fan of his portraiture, I love the black and white imagery, the lighting and especially the era of fashion, hairstyles and 'social mindset.'

Quote by Dorothea Lange

Kitchen Sink

"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind," said Dorothea Lange. "To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking. I have only touched it, just touched it."

***I'll be gone for a few days but back on Monday, happy weekend!***

Dorothea Lange

Maynard and son, 1920s

Woman of the High Plains, Texas Panhandle, 1938 (from An American Exodus book)

Field Worker's Home by a Frozen Pea Field, California, 1937

One Nation Indivisible, San Francisco, 1942

The Kitchen Sink Corner, Summer, 1957.

Dorothea Lange 1895-1965. US photographer who was hired in 1935 by the federal Farm Security Administration to document the westward migration of farm families from the Dust Bowl of the southern central USA. Her photographs, characterized by a gritty realism, were widely exhibited and sebsequentially published as An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion, 1939. (Brockhampton)