Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs: Excerpts from correspondence, interviews, and other documents

Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs: Excerpts from correspondence, interviews, and other documents

Gerald P. Peters • Aperture

ISBN-10: 0912334819 · ISBN-13: 978‑0912334813 · 1976

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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 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 filmsbrilliant, 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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