Kelli Connell and Natalie Krick reimagine Edward Steichen's oeuvre and his subsequent influence on the photographic medium through his work as a war photographer, chief photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair, delphinium breeder and director of the department of photography at the Museum of Modern Art 1947-1962.
Connell and Krick crop, composite, re-edit, colorize, and re-sequence images from Steichen’s archives. Through a process of text erasures and word play, Connell and Krick work with the original language found in the Family of Man exhibition catalogue. These new text and image interpretations serve to interrogate their originals, reflecting upon what narratives are told, by whom, and for whom. Through reimagining Steichen’s work, Connell and Krick’s photographs raise questions about the history of photography, a history that is all-to-often incomplete, imperfect and privileged in its authorship.