Inside Elton John's Collection of Rare Modernist Photography

The end of the First World War left Europe on the brink of a precipice – one marked by both a depleted population and rapidly developing technologies. It was a time of harsh reality and new discoveries across all industries, and it was in this contradictory era that photographers Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz began to feel that the hazy images of Victorian pictorialism were outdated. Duly enthused, they traded in their soft-focused techniques for a high definition approach. It became…