Paul Strand helped define 20th century American photography. Strand's photographs explore the abstract and dynamic qualities found in the natural world, search for humanity in portraits of people and places, and document the experience of life itself.

Originally presented in French in 1952, the b&w photographs by Paul Strand and text by French Author Claude Roy (including selections of classic French poetry, traditional recipes, folksongs and other vernacular writings, and Roy's own poems and writings)

Paul Strand was more than a great artist: he discovered that photography had the potential to be the most dynamic medium of the twentieth century.

Paul Strand was more than a great artist: he discovered that photography had the potential to be the most dynamic medium of the twentieth century.

For Paul Strand the summers of 1926 and 1930-1932 marked a period of critical artistic growth. Absorbing the Southwest's complex cultural history, Strand made pictures that merged realism with abstraction, and formalism with an American romanticism.

Albumu, stanowiącego dokumentację 3 miesięcznego pobytu, Paula Stranda, wraz z małżonką na malowniczej, niemalże nietkniętej przez zdobycze cywilizacji wyspie South Uist u zachodnich wybrzeży Szkocji.

Strand’s photographs encourage the viewer to look closely and observe how details and formal relations emerge.