"Black": Model Margaret Horan in a black dress by Jay Thorpe, 1935
(Condé Nast Archive, New York. © Condé Nast Publications)
Actress Marlene Dietrich, 1934
(Richard and Jackie Hollander Collection, Los Angeles. © Condé Nast Publications)
Actress Gloria Swanson, 1924
(Museum of Modern Art, New York. © Condé Nast Publications)
Model wearing a shawl of crêpe de chine hand-painted by Russian artists, 1924
(Condé Nast Archive, New York. © Condé Nast Publications)
Actress Greta Garbo, 1928
(George Estman House/Int. Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY. © Condé Nast Publications)
Avocadoes, France. vers 1920
(Richard and Jackie Hollander Collection, Los Angeles. © Joanna T. Steichen)
The spiral shell, France. Circa 1921
(Richard and Jackie Hollander Collection, Los Angeles. © Joanna T. Steichen)
Actor Gary Cooper, 1930
(Collection Matthieu Humery, France. © Condé Nast Publications)
Writer Sinclair Lewis, 1932
(Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York. © Condé Nast Publications)
Winston Churchill, 1932
(Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York. © Condé Nast Publications)
Solitude - F. Holland Day, 1901
(Kunsthaus Zürich. © Joanna T. Steichen)
Brooklyn Bridge, 1903
(Bank of America La Salle Collection, Chicago. © Joanna T. Steichen)
The celebrated US photographer can be (re)discovered at Lausanne and Zurich.
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