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Paul Strand retrospective at Philadelphia Museum of Art earns praise
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Tuesday, November 04, 2014
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A retrospective of the work of modernist photographer Paul Strand wows at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Drawing on the Philadelphia museum’s sizable Paul Strand Collection (most of it
acquired since 2010
), the show of some 250 prints takes in the full sweep of his career and some three-quarters of the 20th century. It includes film excerpts and a generous sampling of his photo books, projects that feed back into the early photographs and reveal longstanding interests in duration and narrative.
Bringing modernism down to earth, Strand branched out from Manhattan’s parks and skyscrapers to Maine forests, Mexican churches and small villages in Italy and New England. The immense but well-paced show makes room for mentors and influences beyond Stieglitz, among them the fin de siècle Parisian photographer Eugène Atget, the Italian neo-realist screenwriter Cesare Zavattini and the American social documentarian Lewis Hine (one of Strand’s teachers at the Ethical Culture School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan).
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