Paul Strand: The World On My Doorstep [Hardcover]

Ute Eskildsen (Editor), Paul Strand (Photographer), Catherine Duncan (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 15, 2005

Essays by Catherine Duncan and Ute Eskildsen.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Emigrating to Paris in 1950, American photographer Paul Strand (1890-1976) traveled widely with his wife Hazel Kingsbury across France, Italy, Romania and the Hebrides in search of an ideal village embodying an unbroken exchange between people, environment and nature. They also made photographic odysseys to Morocco, Ghana and Egypt. The 113 quietly moving photographs in this magical album capture the particularities of each region yet also speak of the common humanity of the people emphatically portrayed. Duncan, a Paris-based writer/artist who befriended the Strands in France, provides an informal reminiscence. Eskildsen, a German museum director, capably charts Strand's quest for a whole, organic lifestyle and its expression in his peripatetic work, which has received much less critical attention than his early pioneering pictures.
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Review

"Of all the great photographers of the twentieth century, Paul Strand most truly embodied the aspirations and spirit of his age. From 1915 to 1975 he created photographs that continue to deepen in value and intensity...They show us that abstract qualities are implanted there by culture. Justice and desire burn in faces, foliage, and even a fence. As in all great art, the photographs of Paul Strand transcend their own immediacy, a feat of eloquence that makes their presence enduring." --Mark Haworth-Booth, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

"Paul Strand is one of those photographers who have established not just a body of work but a way of seeing. His prints encourage the eye to take an apparently endless journey." --The Times Literary Supplement

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 146 pages
• Publisher: Aperture; First edition (June 15, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0893815454
• ISBN-13: 978-0893815455
• Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 10 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,091,760 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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