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What was the main idea behind Edward Steichen’s 1942 exhibition The Road to Victory?
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Edward Steichen
Edward Steichen, 1960.
The main idea behind Edward Steichen’s 1942 exhibition, The Road to Victory, was to present photographs not as individual, independent works of art, but rather as threads of a larger tapestry—functioning as the subservient parts of a greater, unified whole.1
By organizing the images in this manner, Steichen emphasized the collective narrative and emotional force of the exhibition, which was widely admired for its coherence.1