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Name: Rose-Marie DEMELY
Pseudo: Sacha0606
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About the photographer:Eduard Steichen was born in Luxembourg in 1879.The family settled in USA,in 1881.He showed such talent for drawing that on leaving school he became an apprentice at a lithographing company.In 1895 he bought a camera.During World War I Steichen was in command of all aerial photography of the American Expeditionary Force;he retired as lieutenant colonel in 1919 and settled in France.He gave up painting and abandoned the soft-focus and heavily retouched style that had won him fame as a photographer.He used the camera directly, emphasizing sharpness and texture.In 1922 he returned to America and opened a commercial studio in New York (advertising photography).For Vanity Fair and Vogue magazines he produced fashion illustrations and portraits of outstanding personalities.He was named director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.He died in 1973.

Photo: model == Fanny Haven Wickes (?).Where: Newport Rhode Island 1924.
Kit: Dreaming II Value Pack made by Lynn Griffin.
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