Steichen, Sold on The Celebrity Aesthetic – washingtonpost.com
The link is for a review of our recently opened exhibition “Edward Steichen: Portraits” at the National Portrait Gallery. It’s a positive review but it seems to have a bit of an edge to it.
“Self-Portrait With Brush and Palette” is a celebrity photograph, an early one, one of the first. If you want to understand the knack of Annie Leibovitz, or the useful affections of Jeff Koons and Julian Schnabel, or how dress-up self-promotion got so deep into the art world, this 107-year-old image is a place where you might start.
It’s half artwork, half ad.
It’s great exhibition – not too large, not too small, very intimate. Here is the link to the official site for the exhibition:
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