[1] Joanna E. Taub was born to a dental surgeon on February 22, 1933, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
[1] She grew up in Albany, New York then attended Smith College, where she majored in theater and graduated in 1954.
She worked with him to mount exhibits and write his autobiography and ultimately arranged the donation of his collection to the George Eastman Museum.
[1] In 1983, she published a non-fiction book called Marrying Up: An American Dream and Reality[3][4][5] and in 2000, a survey of Edward Steichen’s work called Steichen’s Legacy: Photographs: 1895-1973, in conjunction with a retrospective at the Whitney Museum.
[8] She died by drowning on July 24, 2010, at her summer home in Montauk, New York, after suffering from Parkinson's disease.