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. [1]
Joanna E. Taub was born to a dental surgeon on February 22, 1933, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. [1] She grew up in Albany, New York then attended Smith College, where she majored in theater and graduated in 1954. [1] She met Edward Steichen in 1959 when she was 26 and he was 80. [2] 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. [1] 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. [1] In 1983, she published a non-fiction book called Marrying Up: An American Dream and Reality [3] [4] [5] 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. [6] [7] [2] 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. [8] She died by drowning on July 24, 2010, at her summer home in Montauk, New York, after suffering from Parkinson's disease. [1]
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. [1]
Joanna E. Taub was born to a dental surgeon on February 22, 1933, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. [1] She grew up in Albany, New York then attended Smith College, where she majored in theater and graduated in 1954. [1] She met Edward Steichen in 1959 when she was 26 and he was 80. [2] 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. [1] 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. [1] In 1983, she published a non-fiction book called Marrying Up: An American Dream and Reality [3] [4] [5] 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. [6] [7] [2] 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. [8] She died by drowning on July 24, 2010, at her summer home in Montauk, New York, after suffering from Parkinson's disease. [1]