Word: strandings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...names?Yahweh and Elohim?which they used for God. The Yahwist strand portrays an anthropomorphic deity, the Elohist a spiritualized God. Though rigid application of this theory has come under fire, it is perhaps the most widely taught example of 19th century criticism...
American museums, especially, have been interested in the "more imaginative" masters of the medium, beginning with Edward Steichen, proceeding through the epic or intimist nature poets (Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Ansel Adams) and finishing in an exponential growth of different styles in the '70s -Duane Michals' enigmatic fumetti, Paul Caponigro's monumental landscapes, and Jerry Uelsmann's surrealist montages. Meanwhile, LIFE and Look were the showcases for the documentary photographs: the picture magazines were their museum without walls, and it is now pitifully shrunk. To present the documentary photographer to a "serious" audience, an audacious venture...
...spun and dived and gained the line, To strand us--blue, and white...
...THIS disregard for "what the world looks like" that many visitors to "Photography Unlimited" will no doubt find disturbing and even offensive. Those who admire the documentary realism of Edward Weston, Eugene Smith and Paul Strand--artists who sought the "perfect negative"--may find Karen Truax's handcolored photographs of surrealistic landscapes or James Friedman's mixed media collage made of multiple images of a woman's face, a hammer and a broken window, irritatingly enigmatic and uncommunicative...
...this is to show that Imogen Cunningham has been a very good photographer for a very long time. She is a portraitist. In the mid-1920s, influenced by the photographs of Paul Strand, she did a series of intense studies of plants, and even these are portraits. She bears down on a single bud or stalk and reveals the uniqueness of a living thing in the same way she concentrates on a human face and reveals its essentials. For her, Ansel Adams glares down from the top of a mountain, tripod slung over his shoulder, finger jabbing...