CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/7/2013

Winter Through the Lens of Paul Strand

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 Aperture's stunning new linen-bound volume, 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. Featured photograph is reproduced from Paul Strand: The Garden at Orgeval.