Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs (Aperture Monograph S.)

New York. Aperture. 2005. Hard Cover. Black cloth boards with gilt titles. Condition of book is near fine. Dust wrapper has a nick along the top edge but is otherwise fine. The flyleaf is inscribed with a large number of signatures suggesting that the book was given as a gift but no clues as to the owner. Excellent monograph on Strand with profile provided by Calvin Tomkins. Book also includes excerpts from correspondence, interviews, and other documents. one of the most comprehensive surveys of the power and force of a major photographic figure. Before his death in 1976 at age eighty-five, Strand looked at 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.…