Arts: The anti-Christ of photography? Or `the greatest photographer who ever lived'? Edward Steichen's work provoked extreme reactions during his lifetime and, in the first retrospective since his death in 1973, still does.

The Independent - London | January 6, 2001| | Copyright

While he was still in his early twenties, Edward Steichen (1879- 1973) was already being described as "perhaps the greatest photographer who ever lived". On the other hand, Ansel Adams - pretty far up in most people's photographic pantheon himself - snarled that Steichen was unquestionably the "anti-Christ of photography". Steichen's admirers, and they have been many, have suggested that he did more than any other practitioner to force a reluctant art world into accepting photography as a legitimate modern medium; his detractors, even when they concede this, generally retort that he then did ...

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