The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 24, 2025

Riverside Drive and 83rd Street, New York

1914
(American, 1890–1976)
America
Vintage platinum print
Image: 24.4 x 31.7 cm (9 5/8 x 12 1/2 in.); Paper: 25.6 x 32.9 cm (10 1/16 x 12 15/16 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 50.8 cm (18 x 20 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1983.201
Photographs by Paul Strand © Aperture Foundation, Inc., Paul Strand Archive
Location: not on view

Description

In 1917, Alfred Stieglitz hailed Strand as the future of photography as an art and devoted much of the final two issues of Camera Work to him. “His vision is potential. His work is pure. It is direct. It does not rely upon tricks of process. In whatever he does there is applied intelligence,” said Stieglitz. Strand draws upon the principles and themes of Pictorialism, finding inspiration in the rhythms of daily life in the city, the emotional intimacy of mother and child, and the contrast between natural and artificial forms. However, he also begins to assert a more boldly abstract vision through asymmetry, dynamic line, and strong contrasts, anticipating modernist trends in painting and photography that would prevail in the 1920s.
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    Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 343
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    Legacy of Light: Seven Masters in Depth. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 20-February 2, 1996).
    Paul Strand. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (organizer); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (March 12-May 15, 1992); M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (June 14-August 16, 1992); Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK (September 16-November 22, 1992).
    The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).
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