Word: strandings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early acceptance of photography as an art procured for it the first National Endowment Grant for photography. Such foresight is evidenced further by Pratt's selectors for its exhibition. Top billing is given to lesser-established artists, although a few 20th century masters, such as Walker Evans, Paul Strand, Diane Arbus. Berenice Abbott and Minor White have adequate representation for comparison...
...younger photographers us the Fogg exhibition have been concerned with experimentation and the development of photography through unusual techniques, the recognized masters hold onto more traditional theories of photography. Although some of these innovators have not matured in technique, their efforts expand our aesthetic consciousness of photography. Paul Strand, who has been photographing since 1915, advocates the use of straight photographic methods and proclaims the uniqueness of their objectivity, yet does not question the value of the other arts. He wrote...
...CURRENT Retrospective Exhibition of Paul Strand--an exhibit of over 500 photos--at the Museum of Fine Arts till December 10, we can observe Strand's spirit of search. His efforts were directed toward finding the emotional significance of the object. For his early work in the 1920's he shot trees, gnarled driftwood, machines--close--ups of plants and rocks. His work with close-ups led Strand to explore the world of human portraits. At one polar, he experimented with the idea of photographing people when they were answers that they were in view of the camera. This...
...camera, while the other remains closed, the white just barely peeking out from between the lids. A white-painted sign with dark letters spelling "BLIND" hangs from her neck and stands out bold against her black-robed chest. The cold stone wall behind her head matches the grey strands of hair showing from beneath her black scarf; the wall's slate grey indifference intensifies her rejection from New York's burgeoning society--a society that has pinned a metal badge "Licensed Peddlar 2622" at her collar. Few photographers have achieved as powerful a moral statement as Strand...
...Many of Strand's earlier works are abstract, a style that he did not continue in his inter photography. "Abstraction, Bowls," (Connecticut, 1915) he claims to be just an experiment, but his awareness of their smooth, rolling contours can't be missed in his later handling of hats in "Hat Factory" (Luzzara Italy, 1953) (seen in the remarkable tow-violence retrospective monograph published by Aperture this year), and even in the Chiaroscuro of dark and light is such foreign architectural structures as "Gateway" (Rabat, Morocco...