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The Family, Luzzara

1953

Paul Strand

(American, 1890–1976)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 11.7 x 15 cm (4 5/8 x 5 7/8 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
Credit Line
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1985.95
Copyright
Photographs by Paul Strand © Aperture Foundation, Inc., Paul Strand Archive
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

The Family, Luzzara is one of a remarkable set of images Paul Strand made during the course of five months spent in the Italian village of Luzzara, in the Po River valley. This group portrait depicts the Lusetti family of tenant farmers in front of their house. The matriarch of the family is framed in the darkened doorway, surrounded by five of her eight surviving sons. Positioning the family members frontally and close to the camera, Strand conveyed very specific information about their physical characteristics and personalities, even though he intended them to be seen as enduring symbols of universal human qualities.
Black-and-white photograph of the Luzzara family, a mother and five adults sons, standing before the worn exterior of a building. In the darkened doorway, the mother stands on our left, one son facing her, back to the door frame, on our right. Two sons sit on the step in front of them. Two more flank the doorway, hands in pockets. The one on our left leans against the wall, on our right, against a bicycle.

The Family, Luzzara

1953

Paul Strand

(American, 1890–1976)
America

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