Hambourg, Maria Morris, author.

Paul Strand, circa 1916 / Maria Morris Hambourg.

New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [1998]
New York : Distributed by H.N. Abrams,
©1998

166 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 30 x 33 cm

Paul Strand (1890-1976) was one of the most important and influential photographers of this century. The dramatic achievements of his early career, which have not until now been studied apart from his entire oeuvre, are the focus of this book, which accompanies an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Spurred by the example of Cezanne, Picasso, and Nietzsche, Strand pushed the medium into artistic terrain considered too difficult, cerebral, or brutal to describe with a camera.
After studying photography with the social reformer Lewis Hine, Strand began to absorb the ideas of the European avant-garde, gradually abandoning the painterly effects of pictorialism in favor of a candid and psychologically potent realism on the one hand and a masterfully wrought abstraction on the other. The text by Maria Morris Hambourg traces the early development of Strand's ideas, the complex cultural context of his experiments, and the emergence of such masterpieces as Wall Street, White Fence, and Blind.

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Strand, Paul, 1890-1976 Exhibitions.
Strand, Paul, 1890-1976 Expositions.
Strand, Paul, 1890-1976
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Photographers.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Photographes.
photographers.
Photography, Artistic
Foto's.

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Strand, Paul, 1890-1976, photographer.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Location: Library main m 178874
Call No.: TR140.S897 (ID:98-B1363)
Status: Available