Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Steichen

Edward Steichen
Self Portrait with Brush and Palette
1902
gum bichromate print
Art Institute of Chicago


Edward Steichen
Midnight, Lake George
1904
gum bichromate over platinum print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Self Portrait with Camera
1917
platinum print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Triumph of the Egg
ca. 1921
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Miguel Covarrubias
1927
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Helen Morgan
1927
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Zasu Pitts
1928
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Tilly Losch
1930
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Rose Hobart
1931
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Josef von Sternberg
1931
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Lily Pons
ca. 1932
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Anna Stein
1932
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Lillian Gish in Within the Gates
1934
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Katherine Cornell
1934
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Dolores del Río
ca. 1934
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Elisabeth Bergner
1935
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Fashion Shot
1935
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

The Porcupine, from De Histrice

Her longer head like a swines snowt doth show;
Bristles like hornes upon her forehead grow.
A fiery heat glows from her flaming eye;
Under her shaggy back the shape doth lye
As 'twere a whelpe: nature all Art hath try'd
In this small beast, so strangely fortified. 
A threatning wood o're all her body stands;
And stiff with Pikes the spectled stalks in bands
Grow to the warre; while under those doth rise
An other troope, girt with alternate dyes
Of severall hue; which while a blacke doth fill
The inward space, ends in a solid quill.
That lessning by degrees, doth in a while,
Take a quick point, and sharpen to a Pile. 
Nor doth her squadrons like the hedghogs stand
Fixt; but shee darts them forth, and at command
Farre off her members aimes; shot through the skie
From her shak'd side the Native Engines flie.
Sometimes retiring, Parthian like, shee'l wound
Her following foe; sometimes intrenching round
In battaile forme, marshalling all her flanks,
Shee'l clash her javelins to affright the ranks
Of her poore enemies: lineing every side
With spears, to which shee is her selfe allied.

– Claudian (AD 370-404), translated by Thomas Randolph (before 1635)