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“[Paul] Strand grew up on the Upper West Side of New York where he attended the Ethical School of Culture, a new school established by secular German Jews devoted to a philosophy of moral and social responsibility in a city of immigrants and industrialization. One of his teachers was Lewis W. Hine, the social reformer who effectively used his camera to document unfair labor practices and poverty. Hine set up a school darkroom and first offered photography as an extra-curricular activity, thus providing the seventeen-year-old Strand with his introduction to basic photography in 1907. That same year, Hine took his classes to see a group exhibition at 291 – a visit that sealed Strand’s determination to become a photographer.”
Published by Aperture. Photographs by Paul Strand.
Paul Strand was more than a great artist: he discovered that photography had the potential to be the most dynamic medium of the twentieth century. Purity, elegance, and passion are the hallmarks of Strand's imagery. This inaugural volume of Aperture's Masters of Photography series presents 41 of Strand's greatest photographs, drawn from a career that spanned six decades. Included are his earliest experimental efforts, created from 1915 to 1917, which Alfred Stieglitz declared had begun to redefine the medium. Subsequent photographs reveal the artist's impeccable vision in locales as diverse as New England and the Outer Hebrides, France and Ghana. During Strand's last years, he concentrated on still lifes and the poignant beauty of his own garden at Orgeval, France. In an introductory essay, Mark Haworth-Booth, Curator of Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, provides an overview of the artist's life and his enduring contribution to photography.
PUBLISHER Aperture
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 8 x 8 in. / 96 pgs / 44 reproductions throughout.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 5/31/2009 No longer our product
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Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs, a long-unavailable Aperture classic, is one of the most comprehensive surveys of the power and force of a major photographic figure of our time. Before his death in 1976 at age 85, Strand combed his photographic prints and his many books with an eye to the completion of this volume. Seen here is the summation of a lifework, from the first abstract photographs to the series of plant photographs taken in the last years of his life. Also included is a rarely examined series of films--brilliant, unprecedented documentaries that foreshadowed Italian neo-realism and the new cinema of the post-war years. The re-release of this volume, which features the famous biographical profile by Calvin Tomkins and excerpts from Strand's correspondence, interviews and other documents, makes one of photography's major artists newly accessible.
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BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 184 pgs / 80 duotone.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 4/30/2009 No longer our product
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Published by Aperture. Essay by Basil Davidson. Preface by Catherine Duncan.
Paul Strand is one of those photographers who have established not just a body of work but a way of seeing. His prints encourage the eye to take an apparently endless journey. --The Times Literary Supplement In 1954 Paul Strand and his wife Hazel spent three months traversing the rugged island of South Uist, off the west coast of Scotland. Tir a'Mhurain reflects the impressions they gathered during their stay. Juxtaposing people and landscape, Strand's photographs depict the perfect complicity he saw between nature and habitation in this wild terrain. Whether they are of rocks and sea or a grinning shepherd boy, scudding clouds hanging over seaside houses or the wrinkled face of an old lady, Strand's images capture the essence and complexity of a singular place. This new edition of Tir a'Mhurain, which includes rare images never before published, is a true masterpiece of photography. In the spirit of the Aperture editions of Strand's classic works La France de Profil (2001) and Un Paese (1997), this volume celebrates the beauty of everyday life.
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BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 128 pgs / 89 reproductions throughout.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 6/15/2005 No longer our product
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Published by Aperture. Essays by Rebecca Busselle and Trudy Wilner Stack.
For Paul Strand, the great pioneer of Modernism, the summers of 1926 and 1930-1932 were a return to experimentation and periods of great artistic growth. He worked in makeshift darkrooms--one in a hotel basement and another above the Taos movie theater. The Southwest period brought not only artistic renewal, but also personal turmoil. His political and social ideas were shifting, and his relationship with the two most important people in his life--his wife Rebecca and his mentor Alfred Stieglitz--were disintegrating. This book reconstructs, in an intimate, visual way, the emotional and creative swirl around Paul Strand, through beautiful reproductions of his images from the period and a comprehensive collection of notes, illustrations and ephemera. While a handful of Strand's Southwest photographs have been previously published, this period of his outstanding career remains largely unexplored. Paul Strand Southwest presents many images for the first time, including dramatic landscapes, decayed ghost towns, the noble architecture of adobe churches and his final austere portraits of Rebecca.
PUBLISHER Aperture
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 112 pgs / 81 reproductions throughout.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 6/15/2005 No longer our product
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PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781931788465TRADE List Price: $50.00 CAD $60.00
Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs, a long-unavailable Aperture classic, is one of the most comprehensive surveys of the power and force of a major photographic figure of our time. Before his death in 1976 at age eighty-five, Strand combed his photographic prints and his many books with an eye to the completion of this volume. Seen here is the summation of a lifework, from the first abstract photographs to the series of plant photographs taken in the last years of his life. Also included is a rarely examined series of filmsÛbrilliant, unprecedented documentaries that foreshadowed Italian neo-realism and the new cinema of the post-war years. The re-release of this volume, which features the famous biographical profile by Calvin Tomkins and excerpts from Strand's correspondence, interviews, and other documents, makes one of photography's major artists newly accessible.
PUBLISHER Aperture
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 184 pgs / 77 reproductions throughout.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 6/15/2005 No longer our product
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PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9780912334813TRADE List Price: $50.00 CAD $60.00
Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs
Paul Strand: Tir A'Mhurain
Paul Strand: Southwest
Paul Strand: The World On My Doorstep
Paul Strand: Sixty Years Of Photographs