Bøger af Paul Strand

Classic book of black-and-white photographs in the Outer Hebrides.

Seven-year-old Paul strolled through the orchard, sampling the antique apples that surrounded the abandoned farm house. He wondered how long he would live in this place. After all, he had already resided in more places than a kid his age should have, and would end up attending twenty schools in nearly as many locations. Paul's experiences while growing up in the Pacific Northwest include adventure, humor and a portrayal of how life was, "back then." Our SeaTac International Airport was a forest where kids watched bulldozers clear runways. Well traveled hills that now lead to freeways are the ones where Paul sped his soapbox racers. Because of his family's nomadic lifestyle; he watched his dad build their tiny home of whatever their patch of forest provided, lived in a 4,000 trailer house community at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, spent time at the infamous Briscoe Boys School and lived in a house built by the kindly brother-in-law of Dinah Shore . Readers are guaranteed to enjoy this sometimes poignant, sometimes sad, sometimes humorous but always intriguing account of the adventurous life lived "When Grandpa Was a Kid."

Introduces the history and art of photography to a broader public. This book provides a comprehensive view of the artists who have helped shape the medium.

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.

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.