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Twin Lakes, Connecticut
Creator
Paul StrandAmerican Photographer · 1890–1976
All works by this person →Paul Strand began photographing in New York in the 1910s. During the early 1920s he received recognition for both his painting and his photography. He visited New Mexico in 1926 and, beginning in 1930, returned for three consecutive summers, making portraits of artist friends and acquaintances. It was there, amidst a community of visual artists and writers, that Strand began to develop his belief
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- 1916
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- Silver platinum print
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- American
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
Pointing his camera up and tilting the frame resulted in this dynamic study of architecture and sky made by Paul Strand during a summer retreat to Twin Lakes, Connecticut. The edges of the roof, pillar, and porch railing that enter the frame at the top barely resemble their functional form; instead they are neatly transformed into triangle, parallelogram, and line. By contrast, the natural shapes of cumulus and cirrus cloud formations fill the sky, balancing the human-made geometric forms in both tone and texture.
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