[Click to enlarge the photograph and for a review and commentary about Gerhard Steidl's lecture]

Gerhard Steidl, the German master publisher of photography and art books, delivered the annual Hugh Edwards Lecture at the Art Institute of Chicago this evening.  Toward the end of the lecture, Steidl said he is a technician, not an artist.  Most devotees to the books that he publishes would strongly disagree.