id: 151360
accession number: 1983.201
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.201
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Riverside Drive and 83rd Street, New York, 1914. Paul Strand (American, 1890–1976). Vintage platinum print; image: 24.4 x 31.7 cm (9 5/8 x 12 1/2 in.); paper: 25.6 x 32.9 cm (10 1/16 x 12 15/16 in.); matted: 45.7 x 50.8 cm (18 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1983.201 Photographs by Paul Strand © Aperture Foundation, Inc., Paul Strand Archive
title: Riverside Drive and 83rd Street, New York
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creation date: 1914
creation date earliest: 1914
creation date latest: 1914
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creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
copyright: Photographs by Paul Strand © Aperture Foundation, Inc., Paul Strand Archive
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: Vintage platinum print
department: Photography
collection: PH - American 1900-1950
type: Photograph
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CREATORS
* Paul Strand (American, 1890–1976) - artist
Paul Strand American, 1890-1976
Paul Strand (born in New York City) was an influential advocate of the straight approach in creative photography. While a student at the Ethical Culture School in New York, Strand studied photography with Lewis Hine (1907-8). In 1908 he joined the Camera Club of New York and three years later traveled through Europe, making softly focused, manipulated photographs in the popular pictorial style. In the fall of 1911 Strand established himself as a freelance commercial photographer in New York and two years later began visiting the exhibitions of modern art at Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession galleries.
Between 1914-17, stimulated by his contact with Stieglitz and avant-garde American and European art, Strand abandoned pictorialism for images that expressed an interest in formal concerns and the dynamism of contemporary urban life. He experimented with abstraction and movement and candid portraiture of people on the street. Excited by Strand's innovative work, Stieglitz exhibited his pictures at "291" in 1916 and featured them in the final two issues of Camera Work (October 1916; June 1917). In 1917 Strand expressed his belief in a pure photographic aesthetic, stressing the objectivity of the medium and its ability to produce "a range of almost infinite tonal values which lie beyond the skill of the human hand."
The following year Strand served as an x-ray technician in the Army Medical Corps. After his year of service, he returned to New York and in 1920 collaborated with painter/photographer Charles Sheeler on the avant-garde film Manhatta (originally titled New York the Magnificent). Throughout the 1920s Strand made his living as a filmmaker, only occasionally making photographs. He pursued both film and creative photography in the 1930s and early 1940s; by 1945, however, when his images were featured in a one-person exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, still photography had once more become his primary focus. After visiting France in 1950 he decided to settle there, and over the following two decades traveled and photographed in Europe and Africa.
Strand's work has been widely exhibited. Retrospectives have been mounted by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1945), the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1971, and tour), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1973), and numerous traveling exhibitions have been organized, including Paul Strand: An American Vision by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1990). He was named an Honorary Member of the American Society of Magazine Photographers (1963) and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1973). M.M.
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measurements: Image: 24.4 x 31.7 cm (9 5/8 x 12 1/2 in.); Paper: 25.6 x 32.9 cm (10 1/16 x 12 15/16 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 50.8 cm (18 x 20 in.)
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inscription: Written in pencil on recto: "PS"; in pencil on verso: "16"; "4"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Year in Review for 1983
opening date: 1984-02-22T05:00:00
The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).
title: Legacy of Light: Seven Masters in Depth
opening date: 1996-11-20T05:00:00
Legacy of Light: Seven Masters in Depth. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 20-February 2, 1996).
title: Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2007-06-24T00:00:00
Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-September 16, 2007); Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA (October 3, 2009-January 3, 2010).
title: Shadows and Dreams: Pictorialist Photography in America
opening date: 2015-09-05T00:00:00
Shadows and Dreams: Pictorialist Photography in America. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 5, 2015-January 17, 2016).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Paul Strand. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (organizer); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (March 12-May 15, 1992); M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (June 14-August 16, 1992); Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK (September 16-November 22, 1992).', 'opening_date': '1992-03-12T00:00:00'}
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CITATIONS
Turner, Evan H. "Year in Review for 1983." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 2 (1984): 38-79.
page number: no. 110, p. 72
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25159848
Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: P. 343
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IMAGES