Word: strandings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Adams' problem was to find a modernist vision in photography, one that corresponded to the postimpressionist avantgarde, whose works he had glimpsed at the San Francisco Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915. In 1930 he saw that vision in the work of a photographer twelve years his senior, Paul Strand...
...Strand and Adams had met in Taos, N. Mex., in a friend's house. Adams saw no prints, only negatives. He remembers looking over Strand's shoulder as he checked and sorted them: "It nipped me out. That was the first time I saw photographs that were organized, beautifully composed. Strand was the turning point. I came home thinking, 'Now photography exists!' " Soon afterward he met Edward Weston and saw his work. What came out of these meetings was Group f/64, formed in San Francisco in 1932, consisting chiefly of Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Willard Van Dyke and Adams...
...three years later, his first show. Stieglitz appeared to him (as to many other American artists, including Georgia O'Keeffe, whom Stieglitz married) as a father confessor of unfailing probity. "I am perplexed, amazed and touched at the impact of his force on my own spirit," he wrote to Strand. "I would not believe before I met him that a man could be so psychically and emotionally powerful...
Consider the market history of the late Paul Strand's work. Fifteen years ago, his platinum prints sold for $125. In 1972 they were still a bargain at $1,500. Today a good Strand...
Collected Stories: 1939-1976 provides a chance to isolate and trace one strand of Bowles' remarkable career. The book's 39 tales are not only worth reading on their own, but their assembly should dispel several myths that have grown up around Bowles' work. First, spreading his talent wide has not meant that he spread it thin; any short list of the best contemporary American stories should include two or three from this volume. Second, Bowles' reputation as a pitiless chronicler of the bizarre and sadistic is undeserved; many of his stories are unquestionably grotesque...