Group of six black-and-white photographs of elderly Jews by Edward Steichen (2) and Lusha Nelson (1). * With accompanying paperwork.

(PHOTOGRAPHS).

New York, 1934

Born in Luxembourg, Edward Steichen (1879-1973) was a close friend of the great American photographer Alfred Stieglitz. In 1935 Steichen was hired by the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies which motivated him to take images that would act as a response to the brutal rise of Nazism in Germany. An example of this was his celebrated photograph: “The Matriarch.” Along with Steichen, Lusha Nelson (1908-38) worked for Conde Nast’s Vanity Fair and Vogue magazines and was celebrated for her captivating and iconic images of celebrities.