A black and white photograph of black shadows on a light wall and flat surface.
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The black and white photographs shows the rounded, beveled edge of a flat surface which extends from the lower center to the upper right side, a pattern of dark gray and light-colored bars angle up to the right on the left edge of the surface. In the center, black and light-colored bars run up to the left to a broad black horizontal bar. In the upper right corner is an l-shaped object.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2009.57
People
Paul Strand, American (New York, New York 1890 - 1976 Orgeval, France)
Title
Photograph
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Camera Work 49/50 (1917)
Alternate Title: Abstraction, Porch Shadows, Twin Lakes, Connecticut
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1916
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/331745

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Photogravure
Dimensions
24.4 x 16.8 cm (9 5/8 x 6 5/8 in.)
sheet: 30.8 x 20.8 cm (12 1/8 x 8 3/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs
Copyright
© Aperture Foundation Inc., Paul Strand Archive
Accession Year
2009
Object Number
2009.57
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Commentary
Published in Camera Work, no. 49/50 (1917).

Exhibition History

  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 09 Rotation 3), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/13/2009 - 01/17/2010
  • 32Q: 1300 Early Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 04/29/2015

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