- Studied art at the University of Buenos Aires and the Fernando Fader School of Decorative Arts.
- Shortly after Adolf Hitler annexed Austria in 1938, she and her family emigrated to Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- In 2000, the Leica Gallery in Manhattan held a retrospective of her work.
- In 1960 she moved to New York and began freelancing for Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Life and Associated Press. That year, she photographed Fidel Castro during a famous visit to the United Nations. Her subjects from this time include artist Henri Cartier-Bresson, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and the state funeral of John F. Kennedy.
- Steiner's photojournalism career began around age 30 when she published a photograph of Argentina's president, Pedro Eugenio Aramburu in Life magazine. She went on to work for the Brazilian magazine O Cruzeiro, undertaking photo assignments around Latin America.
- In her 20s she began working in documentary film. She helped produce some 50 documentaries for the foreign ministry of Argentina.
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