Tonalism and ‘photography’s greatest artist’

‘Photography’s greatest artist’ – that’s what Carter B. Horsley claims for Edward Steichen, and he puts the Tonalist pictures centre stage in his essay

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Edward Steichen, Across the Salt Marshes, Huntington, c. 1905, oil on canvas, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Gift of Florence Scott Libbey, reproduced with permission of Joanna T. Steichen
Edward Steichen, Across the Salt Marshes, Huntington, c. 1905, oil on canvas, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Gift of Florence Scott Libbey, reproduced with permission of Joanna T. Steichen

The above reproduction is better than those in the esaay

The essay is HERE

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