Signed, dated and print date in pencil on print verso. Ralph Steiner was an American photographer and filmmaker born 1899 in Cleveland Ohio. He studied photography at the highly renowned Clarence White School of Photography. With the guidance of Clarence White, Steiner began working for the Manhattan Photogravure Company. He later worked as a freelance photographer and through the influence of Paul Strand joined the Film and Photo League. Steiner photographs and films are recognized as significant examples of early American avant-garde. Ralph Steiner’s work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Akron Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Getty Museum.
Ralph Steiner (February 8, 1899 July 13, 1986) was an American photographer, pioneer documentarian and a key figure among avantgarde filmmakers in the 1930s. Born in Cleveland, Steiner studied chemistry at Dartmouth, but in 1921 entered the Clarence H. White School of Modern Photography. White he
"These days I think the composers of music influence me more than any photographers or visual creators. I see something exciting or lovely and think to myself: 'If Papa Haydn or Wolfgang Amadeus or the red-headed Vivaldi were here with a camera, they'd snap a picture of what's in front of me.' So I take the picture for them." Ralph Steiner at the Addison Gallery of American Art Ralph Steiner on the Haggerty Museum Flickr Page Ralph Steiner at I Photo Central Ralph Steiner at Luminous Lint for Collectors and Connoisseurs of Fine Photography Ralph Steiner at Scheinbaum & Russek, Ltd. "The Bridge," 1929 "Ham and Eggs," 1929 "The Village," 1922 "American Rual Baroque," 1929 Ralph Steiner Biography from Scheinbaum & Russek, Ltd: Ralph Steiner, while studying chemical engineering at Dartmouth, discovered photography. Steiner has a scientific bent as well as a lyric visual one, and has used his knowledge of chemistry and physics with great enthusiasm to solve photographic problems. After Dartmouth, Steiner studied at the Clarence H. White School of Photography in l921 and l922, although he was not in agreement with the painting-oriented design instruction that dominated the curriculum. In the late l920's he met Paul Strand in New York. Strands's prints were a revelation that left Steiner deeply dissatisfied with the commercial work he was then doing. He began teaching himself better craftsmanship, working with an 8 x l0" camera format, photographing "objects with texture," producing such well-known images as his Nehi sign pictures, his Ford car series, and his photograph of a rocking chair. Steiner's career has alternated between periods doing advertising, public relations (Gypsy Rose Lee was one of his subjects), and editorial photography to accumulate funds, and periods spent making still photographs and films for himself. His second effort as a cinematographer, "H2O," is often cited as the second earliest American art film (after Manhatta by Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler). Steiner also made "Cafe Universal," an improvised, semi-dramatic anti-war film based on drawings by George Grosz, cast with leading members of the Group Theater. His film on a New York City dump starred Elia Kazan in a largely improvised role. Steiner and Paul Strand were hired by Pare Lorentz as the cameramen on "The Plow That Broke the Plains;" they directed much of that landmark documentary as well. With Willard Van Dyke, and Paul Strand, Steiner shot and directed the documentary "The City," which ran for a year at the New York World's Fair of 1939. In the late 1930's he worked as a picture editor on "PM," and in advertising and public relations work. His opting of the film rights to the biography of H.S. Maxim, an eccentric 19th century inventor, led him to Hollywood where he spent four years as a writer/executive. On his glad return to New York, with an out-of-date portfolio, Walker Evans gave him photographic assignments for Fortune. In the 1960's Steiner finally began to be able to devote most of his time to his personal photography and cinematography. He moved to rural Vermont in 1963, spending summers on a Maine island, and his work since then includes many lyrical images from those landscapes, including trees, coastline hills, and wash on rural clotheslines. Many of Steiner's lyrical, sometimes gently satirical photographs can be seen as conveying, along with sophistication and concern, a sense of wonder about the 20th century which he entered at the age of one, and yet has been so much a part of. Steiner's autobiography, "A Point of View," was published in 1978. Among exhibitions of his work were a one-man show in 1949 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and exhibitions in 1981 at the Milwaukee Art Center (with Walker Evans) and at the Northlight Gallery in Tempe, Arizona (with Wright Morris). Selected Publications: "A Point of View," Wesleyan University Press, Middleton, CT, 1978 "In Pursuit of Clouds - Images and Metaphors - Photography by Ralph Steiner," introduction by Willard Van Dyke, University of New Mexico Press, 1985
Portrait Of Lucian Bernhard art print by Ralph Steiner. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
1941 wurde der berühmte Engadiner Landschaftsfotograf Albert Steiner damit beauftragt, das im selben Jahr fertiggestellte Rätische Kantons- und Regionalspital der Zürcher Architekten Fred G. Brun und Rudolf Gaberel in Chur zu fotografieren. Aus dem Auftrag an Steiner ist ein einmaliges Zeitdokument in Form gut erhaltener fotografischer Abzüge entstanden. Achtzig Jahre später wird das Grossprojekt «Sanierung, Umbau und Neubau» (SUN) des nun Kantonsspital Graubünden genannten Krankenhauses nach den Plänen des in Frauenfeld beheimateten Büros Staufer & Hasler realisiert. Den ersten Teil des Neubaus hat der bekannte Bündner Architekturfotograf Ralph Feiner im Jahr 2020 dokumentiert. In diesem Buch erzählen Albert Steiners analoge Fotografien und Ralph Feiners digitale Farbbilder von den Entwicklungen in der Fotografie und der Spitalarchitektur. Aus ihrem Blick auf die Bauten in Chur sind auch die gewandelte Bedeutung des Gesundheitswesens und die deutlich gesteigerten Ansprüche unserer Gesellschaft an Krankenhäuser ablesbar.
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Shoemaker Shope taken by Ralph Steiner, Clarence H. White School of Photography in 1922 or 1923. Print size4 3/8 x 3 5/16 in.Shop window for M. Franzese Shoe Maker.
Cleveland-born Ralph Steiner began photographing in his teens, and for many years alternated between his personal photographic work and earning a living doing mostly advertising photography. His work
