Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs

by Paul Strand, Photographer; Calvin Tomkins, Author

• ISBN13: 9780900406829
• ISBN10: 0900406828
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1999-09-30
• Publisher: Aperture

Summary

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 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 Strands correspondence, interviews, and other documents, makes one of photographys major artists newly accessible.