Philadelphia Museum of Art Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 26th Street PA19130 Philadelphia États-Unis
This major retrospective presents the work of a critical figure in the history of modern art, photographer and filmmaker Paul Strand (American, 1890–1976), whose archive of nearly 4,000 prints stands as a cornerstone of the Museum’s collection. Emphasizing his 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. The wide range of imagery in this exhibition 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.
This exhibition includes approximately 250 of his finest prints, selected primarily from the Museum’s holdings, with important early prints from public and private collections. It also features works by Strand’s 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.