Paul Strand

“[Paul] Strand grew up on the Upper West Side of New York where he attended the Ethical School of Culture, a new school established by secular German Jews devoted to a philosophy of moral and social responsibility in a city of immigrants and industrialization. One of his teachers was Lewis W. Hine, the social reformer who effectively used his camera to document unfair labor practices and poverty. Hine set up a school darkroom and first offered photography as an extra-curricular activity, thus providing the seventeen-year-old Strand with his introduction to basic photography in 1907. That same year, Hine took his classes to see a group exhibition at 291 – a visit that sealed Strand’s determination to become a photographer.”

From Rebecca Busselle and Trudy Wilner Stack’s essay in Paul Strand: Southwest.

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PAUL STRAND: THE GARDEN AT ORGEVAL
Edited and with text by Joel Meyerowitz.
APERTURE
ISBN: 9781597111249 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 10/31/2012
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PAUL STRAND IN MEXICO
Text by James Krippner, Alfonso Morales.
APERTURE/FUNDACIóN TELEVISA
ISBN: 9781597111379 | US $75.00
Pub Date: 11/15/2010
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PAUL STRAND
Photographs by Paul Strand.
APERTURE
ISBN: 9780893817466 | US $14.95
Pub Date: 5/31/2009
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PAUL STRAND: TIR A'MHURAIN
Essay by Basil Davidson. Preface by Catherine Duncan.
APERTURE
ISBN: 9780893819934 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 6/15/2005
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PAUL STRAND: SIXTY YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS
Text by Calvin Tomkins.
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ISBN: 9780900406829 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 4/30/2009
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PAUL STRAND: SOUTHWEST
Essays by Rebecca Busselle and Trudy Wilner Stack.
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ISBN: 9781931788465 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 6/15/2005
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PAUL STRAND: THE WORLD ON MY DOORSTEP
Essays by Catherine Duncan and Ute Eskildsen.
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ISBN: 9780893815455 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 6/15/2005
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PAUL STRAND: SIXTY YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS
Essay by Calvin Tomkins.
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ISBN: 9780912334813 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 6/15/2005
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Paul Strand

Paul Strand: The Garden at Orgeval

Edited and with text by Joel Meyerowitz.
Published by Aperture

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.
Paul Strand (1890–1976) was one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century, and among the first to establish photography as an art form. As a youth, he studied under Lewis Hine at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, going on to win acclaim from the likes of Alfred Stieglitz and David Alfaro Siqueiros. After World War II, Strand traveled around the world--from New England to Ghana, France to the Outer Hebrides--and eventually settled in Orgeval, France, where he spent the remaining 27 years of his life.

Paul Strand in Mexico

Text by James Krippner, Alfonso Morales.
Published by Aperture/Fundación Televisa

Paul Strand in Mexico tells the story of the photographer's journeys through Mexico in the early 1930s. In search of a fresh start, Strand traveled to Mexico City in late 1932 at the invitation of Carlos Chavez, the eminent Mexican composer and conductor. The work he created during this key period reflects a time of intense productivity, creative renewal, and the evolution of Strand's foundational idea of the "collective portrait," in which he depicted a region through photographs of individuals, still lifes and studies of architecture and religious subjects. The first publication to chronicle this pivotal time in Strand's career (1932-34), Paul Strand in Mexico demonstrates how, through his photographic studies and work in film, Strand deepened his involvement with Mexican art, society, and revolutionary politics. Shedding new light on this little-known chapter of Strand's life, a scholarly analysis by James Krippner (Associate Professor of History at Haverford College, Pennsylvania) brings together primary research from distinguished archives and institutions in both Mexico and the United States, and Mexican photo-historian Alfonso Morales contributes an essay contextualizing this remarkable body of work within the canon of Mexican photography and film of the 1930s. Additionally, the appendix serves as the catalogue raisonné of Strand's entire photographic output in Mexico. The culmination of Strand's time in Mexico was his collaboration with Emilio Gomez Muriel and Academy Award-winning director Fred Zinnemann on the groundbreaking film, Redes (The Wave) (1936). A remastered DVD version of the film is included with this essential volume.
Paul Strand (1890-1976) is one of the great photographers of the twentieth century. As a youth, he studied under Lewis Hine at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, going on to draw acclaim from such illustrious sources as Alfred Stieglitz. After World War II, Strand traveled around the world--from New England to Ghana to France to the Outer Hebrides--to photograph, and in the process created a dynamic and significant body of work.

Paul Strand

Masters of Photography Series

Photographs by Paul Strand.
Published by Aperture

Paul Strand was more than a great artist: he discovered that photography had the potential to be the most dynamic medium of the twentieth century. Purity, elegance, and passion are the hallmarks of Strand's imagery. This inaugural volume of Aperture's Masters of Photography series presents 41 of Strand's greatest photographs, drawn from a career that spanned six decades. Included are his earliest experimental efforts, created from 1915 to 1917, which Alfred Stieglitz declared had begun to redefine the medium. Subsequent photographs reveal the artist's impeccable vision in locales as diverse as New England and the Outer Hebrides, France and Ghana. During Strand's last years, he concentrated on still lifes and the poignant beauty of his own garden at Orgeval, France.
In an introductory essay, Mark Haworth-Booth, Curator of Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, provides an overview of the artist's life and his enduring contribution to photography.

Paul Strand: Tir A'Mhurain

The Outer Hebrides of Scotland

Essay by Basil Davidson. Preface by Catherine Duncan.
Published by Aperture

Paul Strand is one of those photographers who have established not just a body of work but a way of seeing. His prints encourage the eye to take an apparently endless journey. --The Times Literary Supplement
In 1954 Paul Strand and his wife Hazel spent three months traversing the rugged island of South Uist, off the west coast of Scotland. Tir a'Mhurain reflects the impressions they gathered during their stay. Juxtaposing people and landscape, Strand's photographs depict the perfect complicity he saw between nature and habitation in this wild terrain. Whether they are of rocks and sea or a grinning shepherd boy, scudding clouds hanging over seaside houses or the wrinkled face of an old lady, Strand's images capture the essence and complexity of a singular place.
This new edition of Tir a'Mhurain, which includes rare images never before published, is a true masterpiece of photography. In the spirit of the Aperture editions of Strand's classic works La France de Profil (2001) and Un Paese (1997), this volume celebrates the beauty of everyday life.

Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs

Text by Calvin Tomkins.
Published by Aperture

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 85, 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.

Paul Strand: Southwest

Essays by Rebecca Busselle and Trudy Wilner Stack.
Published by Aperture

For Paul Strand, the great pioneer of Modernism, the summers of 1926 and 1930-1932 were a return to experimentation and periods of great artistic growth. He worked in makeshift darkrooms--one in a hotel basement and another above the Taos movie theater. The Southwest period brought not only artistic renewal, but also personal turmoil. His political and social ideas were shifting, and his relationship with the two most important people in his life--his wife Rebecca and his mentor Alfred Stieglitz--were disintegrating. This book reconstructs, in an intimate, visual way, the emotional and creative swirl around Paul Strand, through beautiful reproductions of his images from the period and a comprehensive collection of notes, illustrations and ephemera. While a handful of Strand's Southwest photographs have been previously published, this period of his outstanding career remains largely unexplored. Paul Strand Southwest presents many images for the first time, including dramatic landscapes, decayed ghost towns, the noble architecture of adobe churches and his final austere portraits of Rebecca.

Paul Strand: The World On My Doorstep

Essays by Catherine Duncan and Ute Eskildsen.
Published by Aperture

Paul Strand: Sixty Years Of Photographs

Essay by Calvin Tomkins.
Published by Aperture

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 filmsÛbrilliant, 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.