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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Editor | Raquel Collazos García, Casilda Ybarra Satrústegui |
Publisher | Fundación Mapfre |
Year | 2015 |
Cover | Halfcloth |
Language | Spanish |
ISBN | 978-84-9844-526-8 |
Pages | 377 |
Weight | 3405 g |
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Type of book | Exhib'publication |
Museum / Place | Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Article ID | art-61291 |
Born in New York, Paul Strand (1890-1976) began studying with the social photographer Lewis Hine and later became close friends with Alfred Stieglitz, a photographer and pioneer in the introduction of modern art in the United States. Strand managed to merge these two trends and continued to explore until laying the foundations of modern photography and anticipating what in later years will be known as “direct photography”. His knowledge of contemporary art derived from his personal contacts with artists and art theorists, his intuition and his powers of synthesis all led him to create a body of work outside of his own time.
The work of this exceptional photographer bears witness to the dizzying transformation that took place in photography in the United States in the early 20th century. This catalog covers Strand’s entire output, including his experiments with abstraction, street-based portraits, close-ups of natural shapes and machines, and the projects he developed in the American Southwest, New England, Mexico, France, Italy, Scotland, Egypt, Morocco, Ghana and Romania.