The Story
Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs, a longunavailable 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 filmsbrilliant, unprecedented documentaries that foreshadowed Italian neorealism and the new cinema of the postwar years. The rerelease of this volume, which features the famous biographical profile by Calvin Tomkins and excerpts from Strands correspondence, interviews and other documents, makes one of photographys major artists newly accessible.
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Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs, a longunavailable 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 filmsbrilliant, unprecedented documentaries that foreshadowed Italian neorealism and the new cinema of the postwar years. The rerelease of this volume, which features the famous biographical profile by Calvin Tomkins and excerpts from Strands correspondence, interviews and other documents, makes one of photographys major artists newly accessible.
