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Village, Tlaxcala, Mexico

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American Photographer · 1890–1976

Artist

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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Date: 1933
Medium: Platinum print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Traveling around Mexico, Paul Strand was interested in documenting the life he encountered in the country's numerous small towns. Along with the people ([86.XM.683.8](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/106NR4) and [86.XM.683.67](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104E72)), he was interested in their environments. In _Village, Tlaxcala, Mexico_ he records the simple architecture of the buildings, which, devoid of ornamentation, stand starkly in the bright sunlight. The weighted existence of the structures is in contrast to the ephemeral quality of the lone white cloud passing above. Adapted from _Paul Strand_, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum by Anne M. Lyden (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005), 50. ©2005, J. Paul Getty Trust.

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