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| Edward Steichen Steeplechase Day, Paris 1900 photogravure Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Edward Steichen On the Houseboat The Log Cabin 1908 color halftone Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Edward Steichen Mr and Mrs Sandburg, Elmhurst, Illinois 1923 gelatin silver print (published in Vanity Fair) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Edward Steichen Brâncusi's Endless Column in Steichen's Garden, Voulangis, France ca. 1925 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Edward Steichen Fashion for Vogue 1926 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Edward Steichen Portrait of Mrs David Adler ca. 1928-30 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Edward Steichen Evening Dresses for Vogue 1930 gelatin silver print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Edward Steichen Fashion for Vogue 1930 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Edward Steichen Ad for Coty lipstick ca. 1930 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Edward Steichen Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 1931 gelatin silver print (published in Vanity Fair) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Edward Steichen Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West 1932 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Edward Steichen Carlotta Monterey (Mrs Eugene O'Neill), New York 1932 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Edward Steichen Charles Sheeler 1932 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Edward Steichen Clare Booth Luce ca. 1938 dye transfer print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Edward Steichen Block of Blue-Wave Delphiniums 1938 dye transfer print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Edward Steichen Delphiniums - Ridgefield, Connecticut 1939 dye transfer print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Edward Steichen Sunflowers ca. 1940 dye imbibition print Art Institute of Chicago |
Aequam Memento
A level mind in crooked times
Preserve, preserve; nor in better fortune
Dash into rash self-glory,
My brother bound for death –
Whether your life be a string of doldrums
Or whether you loll on days of festa
At a private fête champêtre
With a bottle of vintage wine.
Towering pine and silver poplar –
Why do they intermingle their friendly
Shade? And why do these cantering waters
Jockey their way through winding banks?
Here is the place for wine and perfume
And the too fleeting bloom of the rose
While Time and Chance and the black threads
Of the three Fates give chance and time.
You must leave the estate you bought, the house
You built, which yellow Tiber washes,
Leave them – and all that pinnacled wealth,
Your work, will fall to another master.
If rich and of ancient lineage, it makes
No odds; no odds if born a beggar
You lived your life in the foulest slum,
Victims all of the pitiless Reaper.
All of us briefed the same; for all of us
Our lot is rattled like dice and sooner
Or later will fall and embark our souls
On the packet boat to eternal exile.