Paul Strand – an introduction
Martin Barnes, senior curator of photographs at the V&A, discusses the significance of Paul Strand's work
Paul Strand
Paul Strand was one of the greatest and most influential photographers of the 20th century whose images have defined the way fine art and documentary photography is understood and practised today.
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Strand’s career included 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.
Collection highlights
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New Mexico, 1930, Paul Strand © Paul Strand Archive, Aperture Foundation -
Wall Street, New York, 1915, Paul Strand © Paul Strand Archive, Aperture Foundation -
Young Boy, Gondeville, Charente, France, 1951, Paul Strand © Paul Strand Archive, Aperture Foundation -
The Family, Luzzara (The Lusettis), 1953, Paul Strand © Paul Strand Archive, Aperture Foundation -
Milly, John and Jean MacLellan, South Uist, Hebrides, 1954, Paul Strand © Paul Strand Archive, Aperture Foundation. Photograph Victoria and Albert Museum, London -
Paul Strand, American, 1890-1976, Couple, Rucăr, Romania, 1967, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Paul Strand Retrospective, Collection, 1915-1975, gift of the estate of Paul Strand, 1980 © Paul Strand Archive/Aperture Foundation
Features
Photograph of Angela Secchi by Paul Strand
Angels Secchi remembers the day she was photographed by Paul Strand for Un Paese
Paul Strand in the Hebrides
Three of the sitters from Paul Strand's Hebrides series that were photographed as children talk about their memories of South Uist in the 1950s
Paul Strand - Un Paese
We revisit some of the locations found in Strand's book of the Luzzara project, Un Paese
