Edward Jean Steichen was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter and curator and a pioneer of fashion photography, who lived from 27 March 1879 to 25 March 1973. His gown images for the magazine Art et Decoration in 1911 were the first modern fashion photographs to be published. From 1923 to 1938 he served as chief photographer for the Conde Nast magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair, and he was regarded as the most popular and highest-paid photographer in the world.
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In 1944, he directed the war documentary The Fighting Lady, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 17th Academy Awards.
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