An Aperture Monograph 

Paul Strand Sixty Years of Photographs a long unavailable Aperture classic is one of the most comprehensive surveys of the power and force of a major photographic figure of our time Before his death in 1976 at age 85 Strand combed his photographic prints and his many books with an eye to the completion of this volume Seen here is the summation of a lifework from the first abstract photographs to the series of plant photographs taken in the last years of his life Also included is a rarely examined series of films brilliant unprecedented documentaries that foreshadowed Italian neo realism and the new cinema of the post war years The re release of this volume which features the famous biographical profile by Calvin Tomkins and excerpts from Strand s correspondence interviews and other documents makes one of photography s major artists newly accessible Paul Strand Sixty Years of Photographs the long unavailable Aperture classic is one of the most comprehensive surveys of the power and force of a major photographic figure of our time Before his death in 1976 at the age of eighty five Strand combed his photographic prints and his many books with an eye to the completion of this volume Seen here is the summation of a lifework from the first abstract photographs to the series of plant photographs taken in the last years of his life Also included is a rarely examined series of filmsbrilliant unprecedented documentaries that foreshadowed Italian neo realism and the new cinema of the post war years The re release of this volume which features the famous biographical profile by Calvin Tomkins and excerpts from Strands correspondence interviews and other documents makes one of photographys major artists newly accessible - from Amzon