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, Paul Strand spent his last days going over his photographic prints and his many books with an eye to the completion of this volume. ...
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 ...
The viewing public's image of Weegee is of the prototypical New York tabloid news photographer: tough, garrulous and on the scene, ready to cover two murders in one night. But the inventive Jewish immigrant Arthur Fellig (1899-1968), who assumed the self-mocking nickname Weegee, was also one of the most original and creative photographers of the ...
In La France de Profil, Paul Strand's photographs combine with French author Claude Roy's commentary to capture the essence of rural life in postwar France. Like Strand's renowned books Time in New England and Un Paese, La France de Profil is a profound meditation on place. His portraits of the old and young evoke a sense of their character and ...
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" is a collection of photographs that reflects the impressions they gathered during their stay. Juxtaposing people and landscape, Strand's beautifully sequenced photographs depict the perfect ...
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 forty-one of Strand's greatest photographs, drawn from a ...
The great photographer Paul Strand devoted the last 25-years of his remarkable career to celebrating the qualities of endurance and renewal in Europe and Africa. This collection of 110 black-and-white tritone photographs, interviews, and essays reveals the height of Strand's unmistakably masterful artistry.
To honor the 100th birthday of America's internationally preeminent photographer, Paul Strand, the National Gallery of Art presents a collection of his most profound photographs and outstanding images demonstrating Strand's purity of vision. 113 black-and-white photographs, 30 duotones.
In the late 1940s, Paul Strand spoke of creating "a series of photographs that focused on the history, architecture, environs and people of a small town (which) would reveal 'the common denominator of all humanity' and would be a bridge toward a deeper understanding between countries." This book presents a rigorously edited selection of these ...
"Paul Strand is universally acclaimed as a master. His pictures rank highly among the most often reproduced masterworks of photography and have an honored place within the canon of modern art as such. People viewing his work for the first or the hundredth time find themselves captivated within a visual domain of extraordinary immediacy and ...
Chronicles, through stirring images and biographical text, the brilliant autumnal period of a modern master. In 1950 the photographer Paul Strand left New York for Europe, where he and his wife Hazel would remain for the 25 years until his death in 1976. Settling In Orgeval, France, a small town near Paris, Paul and Hazel began travelling widely, ...
Photographer Paul Strand presents the people, landscapes, and everyday life of Luzzara, an Italian village in 1952. In addition to Strand's eloquent photographs, this volume also includes interviews with the inhabitants that illuminate the inner life of the community.
Influenced by issues of social injustice as well as the European avant-garde, Strand combined realism and abstraction to create one of the major bodies of photographic work of the century. A 1998 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Paul Strand was more than a great artist: he was a discoverer of the true potential of photography as the most dynamic medium of the twentieth century. Purity, elegance, and passion are the hallmarks of Strand's imagery. And this inaugural volume of Aperture's "Masters of Photography" series presents forty-one of Strand's greatest photographs, ...
Influenced by issues of social injustice as well as the European avant-garde, Strand combined realism and abstraction to create one of the major bodies of photographic work of the century. A 1998 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Fish! narraba la historia de una empresa ficticia que elimino las energias toxicas que saboteaban el desempeno de sus empleados aplicando las lecciones aprendidas de unos pescaderos poco corrientes. El libro describia las cuatro maximas que ayudan a disfrutar de una vida feliz en el trabajo: jugar, alegrar el dia a los demas, estar presente y ...
The multitude of modern imaging techniques has made pediatric neuroradiology increasingly complex. This book aims to help practitioners choose the best one for their patients.
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