Top 100 Photographs #4

Moonlight; The Pond

1.) I picked this image because it had a haunted feel to it, that the mirror image would maybe reveal something more sinister.
2.) This photographer strongly believed that altering photos was no different than changing the angle from where and when you hit the shutter. He wanted his picture to be seen as both a painting and a photograph, and he would often handprint blue tones into his pictures.
3.) He was both a painter and a photographer, but later renounced painting in the 1920's
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Edward Steichen
1879-1973
Luxembourg
American Fine Art Company of Milwaukee - apprenticeship