The work titled 'The Acropolis' / 'Thérèse Duncan on the Acropolis' (1920) is a gelatin silver or palladium print created by Edward Steichen during his stay in Athens in the summer of 1920. [The Estate of Edward Steichen/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]
Nowadays, fashion style selfies via a mobile phone, corrected with AI filters is probably the most common thing among people of all ages. But few people know that the pioneer of fashion photography was Luxembourg-born Edward Steichen, a celebrated photographer, painter, curator, designer, and horticulturist whose influence helped define modern visual culture.
Steichen images for the magazine Art et Décoration in 1911 are considered the first modern fashion photographs to be published. From 1923 to 1938, Steichen served as chief photographer for the Condé Nast magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair, designating him the “greatest living portrait photographer”
On June 16th, 2026, the Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in Athens, Paul Schmit, in coordination with the Hellenic American Union will pay a tribute to one of the greatest 20th century American versatile artist who’s print of “The Flatiron” (1904) photograph became the second most expensive photograph ever, on November 8, 2022, when it was sold for $12,000,000, at Christie’s New York.
