iylshowcase: Back Focus - Paul Strand (1890 - 1976)Paul Strand was an American photographer and film
iylshowcase: Back Focus - Paul Strand (1890 - 1976)Paul Strand 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. His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, has helped defining the way fine art and documentary photography is understood and practiced today. Until July 3rd, his work is the subject of a major retrospective at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. The exhibition will present around 200 objects spanning Strand’s entire career, including his breakthrough trials in abstraction and candid street portraits, close-ups of natural and machine forms, and extended explorations of the American Southwest, Mexico, New England, France, Italy, Scotland, Egypt, Morocco, Ghana, and Romania. -- source link