Typed letter signed "Edward Steichen" in black ink, one page on his Topstone Road, West Redding, Connecticut letterhead, dated October 16, 1968, to Mr. John D. Buchanan of Markham, Ontario: "I hereby grant you permission to quote my letter to you of December 6, 1967 in your proposed publication." Steichen was a founder of the Photo-Secession with Alfred Stieglitz, the leading fashion and celebrity photographer of the 1920s and 1930s, commander of US Navy combat photography in the Second World War, and director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, where he created "The Family of Man" exhibition (1955). Written in his ninetieth year; he died in 1973. Condition: horizontal mailing folds, light foxing at the margins.
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