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Paul Strand: method and vision

 
Portrait, Washington Square Park, 1917 




Pears and Bowls, 1916




Wild Iris, Maine, 1927



  
  Wall Street, 1915




  
Portrait of Georges Braque, 1957


The “full acceptance” of reality is the method and goal of the photographer, observed Paul Strand. However, full objectivity has to be something different from a passive receptivity but must emerge from an active and vigilant attitude that requires the photographer’s control of his subject. Or rather, it requires the coming together of subject and object in the intervening space of the photograph, synthesizing and perhaps transcending both, a mediating space, both familiar and unusual, made of masses and voids, light and shadows, made of the equivalence of presence and absence,  of correspondences of vision and forms in the world, of the coalescence of equivalent forms in a frame, of a spatialized time and a space of  gradually superposed temporalities.


Marcelo Guimarães Lima


 links:

http://lumieregallery.net/wp/197/paul-strand/

http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=40384
 



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Unknown said…
What a great collection you have.. its my pleasure to seen your photographs...thanks for sharing.


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July 20, 2012 at 4:52 PM
zebedee32 said…
I have recently been researching the History of the Camera was fascinated to learn how the first photograph came to be. George Eastman was the pioneer of the amateur photographer.
August 10, 2012 at 6:13 PM
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great posts. thanks for the informative stuff.
October 24, 2012 at 6:21 PM
Glenwood NYC said…
Great post! There is so much history behind photography. The story behind an individual piece, as well as the progression of photography through history and technologies has always intrigued us. Have you been the Met's 'Faking It' exhibit about image manipulation before the invention of Photoshop? Great history and so much to learn.
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