Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs, Paperback

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Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs, the 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 the age of 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 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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Paul Strand

fotograf american · 1890–1976

Paul Strand a fost un fotograf, director de imagine și regizor de film american care, împreună cu alți fotografi moderniști americani, precum Alfred Stieglitz și Edward Weston, au contribuit extrem de semnificativ la stabilirea poziției fotografiei ca formă de artă în secolul al XX-lea.