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PAUL STRAND
FISHERMAN, GASPE, 1936
hand-pulled, dust-grained photogravure (1979)
image:22.2 cm x 17.8 cm
edition size 350
ESTIMATE: $1,000-1,500
Paul Strand is one of the most important twentieth-century photographers, and has been widely exhibited and published. At the age of eighteen he began to experiment with a variety of non-silver photographic processes and became involved in Steiglitz's Photo-Secession in New York, taking an interest in the most radical art of his time which he witnessed in the Armory Show of 1913. His involvement with pictorialism was brief yet it laid the foundation for an understanding of the complex relationship between the language of technique and the expression of meaning. His elegantly structured images are precisely framed and have strong geometries that reveal the fundamental abstraction of his subject matter. His striking photographs, whether of people at work, vernacular architecture, or landscape details, marry formal concerns with social documentary. Strand was a rigourous printmaker who chose his processes carefully to emphasize the form and content of his subjects, evident in the dramatic mood and contrasty tone of this later photogravure. Strand made two visits to the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec in the summers
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