Edward Steichen, Modernist Portraits
I'm dissecting an old Vanity Fair magazine, and found these great portraits by Edward Steichen. There is something about the iconic nature of these pictures that I find very appealing. A simpler time, when people didn't have to present their humanity, be all "vulnerable and sh-t" in their portraits, a time when candor didn't seem equated with the value of an image. Somehow, I'd rather see these than photos of Gwyneth Paltrow taking out her trash.
The first photo here is James Braddock, portrayed in Ron Howard's "Cinderella Man":
