Joanna Steichen
{{Short description|American author and wife of photographer Edward Steichen (1933–2010)}}
Joanna T. Steichen (February 22, 1933 – July 24, 2010), née Joanna E. Taub, was an American author, psychotherapist, and aide to her husband, photographer Edward Steichen.{{Cite news |last=Grimes |first=William |date=2010-08-07 |title=Joanna Steichen, Photographer's Wife and Aide, Dies at 77 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/07/arts/design/07steichen.html |access-date=2023-03-31 |issn=0362-4331}}
Biography
Joanna E. Taub was born to a dental surgeon on February 22, 1933, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. She grew up in Albany, New York then attended Smith College, where she majored in theater and graduated in 1954. She met Edward Steichen in 1959 when she was 26 and he was 80. They married the following year. She worked with him to mount exhibits and write his autobiography and ultimately arranged the donation of his collection to the George Eastman Museum. After he died in 1973, she went back to school, earning a master’s degree at Columbia University’s School of Social Work and then practicing as a psychotherapist. In 1983, she published a non-fiction book called Marrying Up: An American Dream and Reality{{Cite news |last=Toth |first=Emily |date=1984-05-06 |title=Marrying into money: The profits and the costs |pages=6 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121992997/marrying-into-money-the-profits-and/ |access-date=2023-03-31}}{{Cite news |last=Selvin |first=Molly |date=1984-05-13 |title=Guidebook for the gold diggers of 1984 |pages=286 |work=The Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121993121/guidebook-for-the-gold-diggers-of-1984/ |access-date=2023-03-31}}{{Cite news |last=Brooks |first=Andree |date=1984-06-29 |title=Feminism aside, you can marry up |pages=54 |work=The Fresno Bee |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121993457/feminism-aside-you-can-marry-up/ |access-date=2023-03-31}} and in 2000, a survey of Edward Steichen’s work called Steichen’s Legacy: Photographs: 1895-1973, in conjunction with a retrospective at the Whitney Museum.{{Cite news |last=Weeks |first=Jerome |date=2000-10-13 |title=The Master |pages=66 |work=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121991540/the-master/ |access-date=2023-03-31}}{{Cite news |last=Clemmer |first=David |date=2001-01-21 |title=The legacy of Steichen fixed for good |pages=36 |work=The Santa Fe New Mexican |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121991599/the-legacy-of-steichen-fixed-for-good/ |access-date=2023-03-31}}{{Cite news |last=Gussow |first=Mel |date=2000-11-23 |title=Keeper of the Flame for a Master of Light; Joanna Steichen, Widow of the Legendary Photographer, Basks in His Legacy |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/23/books/keeper-flame-for-master-light-joanna-steichen-widow-legendary-photographer-basks.html |access-date=2023-03-31 |issn=0362-4331}} Steichen’s Legacy presented 315 of his photographs grouped thematically, with each group prefaced by a personal essay.
As of 1986, she lived on West 29th Street in Manhattan.{{Cite news |last=Basler |first=Barbara |date=1986-06-13 |title=EAST 27TH ST.: A QUIET AREA TURNS TOUGH |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/13/nyregion/east-27th-st-a-quiet-area-turns-tough.html |access-date=2023-03-31 |issn=0362-4331}} She died by drowning on July 24, 2010, at her summer home in Montauk, New York, after suffering from Parkinson's disease.
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Category:American women writers
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