Strand, Paul, 1890-1976, photographer.

The garden at Orgeval / Paul Strand ; selection and essay by Joel Meyerowitz.

First edition.

New York : Aperture, [2012].
©2012.

ix, [96] pages : chiefly illustrations ; 28 cm

After nearly a lifetime of traveling and photographing in far-flung places such as Mexico, Ghana, Italy, Scotland and his adoptive country, France, Paul Strand began to concentrate on the stony beauty of his own garden at Orgeval. The work that constitutes The Garden at Orgeval offers a close, exacting study of nature's forms and patterns: tiny button-shaped flowers, cascading winter branches and snarls of twigs. While these photographs exhibit the same directness and precise vision that is so quintessentially Strand, they also reflect his increasing preoccupation with mortality and the fragility of existence. The photographs in this volume have been selected by the renowned photographer, Joel Meyerowitz--whose own affinity toward the Orgeval series stems from a lifetime of photographing in different genres and ultimately, like Strand, returning to nature as an enduring subject. Meyerowitz also contributes an essay responding to Strand's images and reflecting on the contemplation of gardens and the process of aging.

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Strand, Paul, 1890-1976.
Strand, Paul, 1890-1976 Homes and haunts France Orgeval (Yvelines) Pictorial works.
Strand, Paul 1890-1976
Gardens France Orgeval (Yvelines) Pictorial works.
Photography of gardens France Orgeval (Yvelines)
Photography of plants France Orgeval (Yvelines)
Jardins France Orgeval (Yvelines) Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie de jardins France Orgeval (Yvelines)
Gardens
Homes
Photography of gardens
Photography of plants
Naturfotografie
Orgeval (Yvelines, France) Pictorial works.
France Orgeval (Yvelines)

Illustrated works

Meyerowitz, Joel, 1938- editor, writer of essay.

Paul Strand : the garden at Orgeval

Location: Library main 282270
Call No.: BIB 219622
Status: Available