The Pond—Moonlight -Edward Steichen 1904

Using a meticulous multiple printing technique, Steichen produced prints of such pictorial seduction that they have never been equalled.

This view of a pond in the woods of Mamaroneck, New York, is subtly coloured like Whistler's Nocturnes, and like them, it is a sonorous poem of twilight, indistinctness and suggestiveness.

Commenting on these paintings in 1910, Charles Caffin wrote in Camera Work, "It is in the twilight, between the clear visibility of things and their total extinction in darkness, when the concreteness of appearances merges with a half-realized, half-disconcerted vision, that the mind seems to disengage itself from matter to envelop it in a mystery of soul-suggestion. See more