Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

They had two daughters Katherine and Mary. In 1923 Steichen married Dana Desboro Glover. In 1894 at the age of fifteen Steichen began a four-year lithography apprenticeship with the American Fine Art Company of Milwaukee.

Edward Jean Steichen (March 27 1879 – March 25 1973) was an American photographer painter and art gallery and museum curator. During these years Steichen was regarded as the best known and highest paid photographer in the world. Steichen directed the war documentary The Fighting Lady which won the 1945 Academy Award for Best Documentary.