Edward Steichen's socialism

Abstract

In early 1908 Edward Steichen's sister Lilian — poet, essayist, and committed socialist — entered into an intensive correspondence with her new beau Carl Sandburg, also a poet and socia1ist.1 In February, she sent Sandburg a copy of The Century Magazine with an article about Edward Steichen.2 In describing her brother, she told Sandburg ‘One thing I have done for my brother. I've helped make a socialist of him — just as I helped make one of mother. And I hope someday brother will help the movement with his art. He photographed the leading socialists at the Stuttgart Convention last August [I907] — something may come of that’.3 Towards the end of 1908, something actually did ‘come of that’: Steichen's portraits of socialists were published by the prominent American socialist Robert Hunter, in his widely read book Socialists at Work (figures 1 and 2).4

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