In 1930, Edward Steichen and his then 26-year-old daughter Mary published The First Picture Book – Everyday Things for Babies. Steichen describes in his autobiography how the book was developed: “In 1930, my daughter Mary, now grown up and married, came to me with a proposition. She said she felt the need of some kind of book to interest her small children in pictures, and she had an idea for a book to be called Le premier livre d’images - Des choses de tous les jours pour bébés. I found the idea intriguing, so Mary and I produced it together. I made realistic still- life photographs of the objects that a small child could recognize as part of his life.”