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Artist or Maker: PAUL STRAND (1890-1976)

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Provenance: With Zabriskie Gallery, Paris;
acquired by present owner, c.1991.

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Exhibited: Valencia, Spain, Institute Valencia d'Art Modern, La Colección Ordóñez-Falcón de Fotografía , 16 October 1996 - 16 February 1997; Arles, France, Les Recontres d'Arles, Regard Captif (Collection Ordóñez-Falcón) , Summer 2002.

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Notes: PROPERTY FROM THE ORDÓÑEZ-FALCÓN COLLECTION

Above all, look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you know how to use it, you will want to photograph that meaningness.

PAUL STRAND


Strand first travelled to Gaspé, Quebec in the summer of 1929 with his hand-held 4x5 Graflex to explore the integration of man-made structures and landscape, creating an intimate series of images which evoked a sense of a place:

Their importance is that they were the first, more systematic, conscious efforts to organize a landscape and its elements, all its elements. It was well recognized at the time that something new in landscape and in photography had evolved as far as my work was concerned (Strand, quoted in Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs , Aperture, 1976, p.152).

Strand would often dry mount a photograph onto an existing print; the present work is backed with another view of a shed (illus.).