PAUL STRAND
PAUL STRAND Camera Work . Number 49/50. New York, June 1917. Small folio (315 x 232 mm). 11 black and white photogravures. (List of plates loose.) Original printed wrappers (a few minor chips at edges, otherwise fine); quarter morocco folding case. "THE ELEVEN PHOTOGRAVURES IN THIS NUMBER REPRESENT THE REAL STRAND... IN THEIR PRESENTATION WE HAVE INTENTIONALLY EMPHASIZED THE SPIRIT OF THEIR BRUTAL DIRECTNESS" -- Alfred Stieglitz FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY OF THIS NOTORIOUSLY FRAGILE ISSUE OF 'CAMERA WORK' DEDICATED TO PAUL STRAND "The work of Paul Strand was the first photography to excite Stieglitz in a long time. He saw Strand as practicing a truly photographic version of the kind of forceful representation he found in painters like Picasso and Mattisse, and he presented Strand's work as a clean break, even changing the time-tested production methods of Camera Work , Strand's photogravures were printed on thicker paper and with different inks." By 1917, only 500 copies were printed of each issue of Camera Work . 101 Books , pp.42-43. VERY RARE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
PAUL STRAND
PAUL STRAND Camera Work . Number 49/50. New York, June 1917. Small folio (315 x 232 mm). 11 black and white photogravures. (List of plates loose.) Original printed wrappers (a few minor chips at edges, otherwise fine); quarter morocco folding case. "THE ELEVEN PHOTOGRAVURES IN THIS NUMBER REPRESENT THE REAL STRAND... IN THEIR PRESENTATION WE HAVE INTENTIONALLY EMPHASIZED THE SPIRIT OF THEIR BRUTAL DIRECTNESS" -- Alfred Stieglitz FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY OF THIS NOTORIOUSLY FRAGILE ISSUE OF 'CAMERA WORK' DEDICATED TO PAUL STRAND "The work of Paul Strand was the first photography to excite Stieglitz in a long time. He saw Strand as practicing a truly photographic version of the kind of forceful representation he found in painters like Picasso and Mattisse, and he presented Strand's work as a clean break, even changing the time-tested production methods of Camera Work , Strand's photogravures were printed on thicker paper and with different inks." By 1917, only 500 copies were printed of each issue of Camera Work . 101 Books , pp.42-43. VERY RARE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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