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Edward Steichen
Edward Steichen, 1960.
In the 1942 exhibition The Road to Victory, curated by Edward Steichen at the Museum of Modern Art, photographs were presented not as independent works of art, but as the threads of a tapestry. In this approach, individual images functioned as subservient parts of a larger, cohesive whole, designed to create a unified emotional force rather than highlighting the singular aesthetic value of each photograph.1