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Paul Strand was more than a great artist: he was a discoverer of the true potential of photography as the most dynamic medium of the twentieth century. Purity, elegance, and passion are the hallmarks of Strand's imagery. And this inaugural volume of Aperture's "Masters of Photography series presents forty-one of Strand's greatest photographs, drawn from a career that spanned six decades.
Included are his earliest experimental efforts, created from 1915 to 1917, which Alfred Stieglitz declared had begun to redefine the medium. Subsequent photographs reveal the artist's impeccable vision in locales as diverse as New England and the Outer Hebrides, France, and Ghana. During Strand's last years, he concentrated on still lifes and the poignant beauty to be found in his own garden at Orgeval, France.
In an introductory essay, Mark Haworth-Booth, Curator of Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, provides an overview of the artist's life and his enduring contribution.

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CHOICE Review

These small books are the first two titles of a new series intended to present a selection of the best work of important photographers. The format is shared by both; each begins with a brief text. Mark Haworth-Booth, (Victoria & Albert Museum) presents an overview of Strand's work and career, occasionally mentioning the reproduced work; the Cartier-Bresson title has instead a very brief statement by the photographer with no references to specific work. The text is followed by more than 40 black-and-white uncaptioned reproductions of the photographer's work, followed by a list of reproductions giving title and date, a chronology, select bibliography, and exhibition list. Although reproduction quality is not so high as in many Aperture publications, generally it is good; however, some images suffer from being slightly cropped, and their almost chronological arrangement could be improved. Discrepancies exist with photograph dates in both titles as compared to earlier monographs on each artist. Also, chronologies suffer from incompleteness (e.g., Strand gets married three times with no indication of when he was separated from his earlier wives). Most libraries will not need these, as more complete and scholarly works remain in print. Recommended only for libraries with very small budgets.-J.H. Carmin, University of Oregon