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Photo Exhibition

Paul Strand: Master of Modern Photography

© Paul Strand, from Un Paese, 1953
© Paul Strand, from Un Paese, 1953

October 21, 2014 – January 4, 2015
Philadelphia Museum of Art – 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia (USA)
Tuesday–Sunday: 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Open until 8:45 p.m. Closed Monday.
More info : www.philamuseum.org


This major retrospective presents the work of a critical figure in the history of modern art, American photographer and filmmaker Paul Strand (1890–1976), whose archive of nearly 4,000 prints stands as a cornerstone of the Museum’s collection. Emphasizing the influential artist’s most important projects from the 1910s through the 1960s, the exhibition surveys Strand’s entire life’s work, including 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.

This exhibition includes approximately 250 of Strand’s finest prints, selected primarily from the Museum’s holdings, with important early prints from public and private collections. The wide range of imagery highlights how Strand radically changed his work at several key moments in an effort to identify photography’s pivotal role as a means of understanding and describing the modern world. The exhibition also features works by fellow artists from the Alfred Stieglitz circle (Georgia O’Keeffe, John Marin, and Arthur Dove), screenings of Strand’s films, and a selection of archival materials.

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