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Title: Abstraction, Twin Lakes, Connecticut. Artist: Paul Strand (American, New York 1890–1976 Orgeval, France) Date: 1916. Medium: Silver-platinum print. Dimensions: 32.8 x 24.4 cm (12 15/16 x 9 5/8 in.) Classification: Photographs. Credit Line: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987. Accession ...
Abstraction, Porch Shadows, also known as Abstraction, Porch Shadows, Twin Lakes, Connecticut, is a black and white photograph taken by Paul Strand in 1916. It is one of the best known photographs of his early phase, and shows the influence of cubism and abstractionism.
Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 – March 31, 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century.
17 avr. 2006 · Un an plus tard, Strand frôle carrément l'abstraction en décidant de pointer son objectif sur l'angle droit de sa cour (New York). Et c'est en 1917 qu'il réalise le portrait célébrissime et...
Paul Strand spent the summer of 1916 at his family’s cottage in Twin Lakes, Connecticut, attempting to give his understanding of Cubist art—abstraction through fragmentation, multiple points of view, and a reduction of people and objects to basic geometry—a photographic form.
In early 1915, his mentor Stieglitz criticized the graphic softness of Strand’s photographs and over the next two years he dramatically changed his technique and made extraordinary photographs on three principal themes: movement in the city, abstractions, and street portraits.
Paul Strand was an American artist who made significant contributions to the canon of 20th-century photography. Strand’s breadth of skill in the medium are exemplified both in his abstraction of architecture and shadows in Wall Street (1915) and his empathetic documentation of society in Blind (1916). “The decision as to when to photograph ...
