Steichen photographs J.P. Morgan
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- The House of Morgan - An American Banking Dynasty and the whole source · open book
In 1903, Pierpont sat for two minutes as Edward Steichen snapped the famous photograph of him: from deep shadow and gripping the blade-like chair, Pierpont stares out, a tense crease between his brows, his collar stiff, his eyes pitiless points of lights, the gaze legendary in its terror.
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