Paul Strand: Essays on His Life and Work

'Paul Strand is universally acclaimed as a master. His pictures rank highly among the most often reproduced masterworks of photography and have an honored place within the canon of modern art as such. People viewing his work for the first or the hundredth time find themselves captivated within a visual domain of extraordinary immediacy and freshness, not just in textures, shapes, and forms but in subtleties which make for resonating coherences within and among images.'--Alan Trachtenberg, author of' Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans,' excerpted from the' Introduction' 'In Strand's pictures, we find the work of a quiet but intense man who transmuted the real into the ideal, 'the ordinary in man and the transitory in nature converted into eternal symbols.''--Estelle Jussim, author of 'Slave to Beauty: The Eccentric Life and Controversial Career of F. Holland Day, Photographer, Publisher, Aesthete,' from her essay A visionary artist of the