Paul Strand: The World on My Doorstep

This issue of Aperture embraces the last twenty-five years of Paul Strand’s discoveries—from 1950, when he expatriated to France from the McCarthyism of the United States, until his death in 1976. Geographically, his explorations ranged farther than any he had previously undertaken: Paul and his wife Hazel Kingsbury traveled throughout France and to other places including Italy, Romania, the Hebrides, Morocco, Ghana, and Egypt during this period. Photographically, one begins to discover an almost unearthly wisdom in his work that grasps at mysteries of human experience.