1. They were shown photographs by Steichen, Demachy, Puyo and others and asked to comment on them.

2. The great Edward Steichen photographed Isadora Duncan at the Acropolis, Athens in 1921. He used a Kodak borrowed from the head waiter at his hotel.

3. But on his Vogue assignments Steichen produced pictures as meticulously conceived as any painting by Gainsborough or Sargent—even though he needed to fill page after page, month after month.

4. For the photographers who followed him, Edward Steichen left a creative wake of Mozartean dimensions.

5. Though Steichen didn't invent fashion photography, an argument can be made that he created the template for the modern fashion photographer.

6. Though de Meyer was fashion photography's first star, Steichen soon became its most luminous.

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7. Steichen spent the first years of the 20th century in Paris, pursuing parallel careers as an art photographer and painter.

8. In 1902, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and other now venerated American photographers formed a group devoted to convincing doubters that photography was a worthy form of artistic expression.

9. Even Steichen did not pilot fashion photography into the waters of cold sobriety.

10. By 1922, when Steichen was 43, he was undergoing what we now call a midlife crisis.

11. When Steichen suggested they do a series of experimental nude photographs, she readily agreed.

12. "Steichen was a perfectionist, " says Howard Schatz, a fashion photographer whose portraits of actors appear in Vanity Fair.

13. In 1902, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and other now venerated American photographers formed a group devoted to convincing doubters that photography was a worthy form of artistic expression_r.

14. But as Edward Steichen in High Fashion proves, his pictures retain their power to please.

15. Steichen "was a one-man industry for the magazines, so he had to work quickly.

16. The carefully staged black-and-white Steichen pictures that delighted prewar readers of Vogue mostly gave way to color and spontaneity.

17. Features on the surface of Mercury, including craters Kipling (lower left) and Steichen (upper right).

18. In 1900, a critic reviewing some of his portraits wrote admiringly that Steichen "is not satisfied showing us how a person looks, but how he thinks a person should look."

19. Though expensively dressed women had attracted other photographers (notably the very young Jacques-Henri Lartigue in Paris), Steichen set an enduring standard.