Paul Strand: The Formative Years 1914-1917 Portfolio

For this portfolio, Aperture has drawn from the Paul Strand Archive some of the most notable images from the photographer's exemplary career. This is a selection of ten hand-pulled, dust-grain photogravures by some of the most influential photographs of the twentieth century that were made from the original glass plates in 1973. These works were the subject of a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in February 1998. Several of the original prints have sold for between $150,000 and $250,000. Printed by master photogravure printer Jon Goodman, and bearing the authorized seal of the Paul Strand Archive, the portfolio is accompanied by a signed text by noted photography critic Ben Lifson and Michael E. Hoffman, former Executive Director of Aperture, and sold in a cloth-covered clamshell case.

Portfolio of Ten Hand-Pulled Dust-Grain Photogravures
Image Size: Varied (listed below)
Paper Size: 20 x 16 inches
Edition of 300 + 30 AP
Authenticated by the Paul Strand Archive

Prints included in this portfolio:
Abstraction, Porch Shadows, Twin Lakes, Connecticut, 1916
Image Size: 13 x 9 1/8 inches
City Hall Park, New York, 1915
Image Size: 13 1/8 x 6 1/4 inches
Hudson River Pier, New York, 1914
Image Size: 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches
Man, Five Points Square, New York, 1916
Image Size: 9 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches
From the Viaduct, 125th Street, New York, 1915
Image Size: 10 x 12 7/8 inches
From the El, New York, 1917
Image Size: 12 3/4 x 9 1/8 inches
Railroad Sidings, New York, 1914
Image Size: 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches
Still Life, Pear and Bowls, Twin Lakes, Connecticut, 1916
Image Size: 10 x 11 1/4 inches
Yawning Woman, New York, 1916
Image Size: 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches
Fifth Avenue, New York, 1915
Image Size: 12 1/4 x 8 inches

Paul Strand (b. 1890, New York; d. 1976, Orgeval, France) was one of the great photographers of the twentieth century. As a youth, he studied under Lewis Hine at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, going on to draw acclaim from such illustrious sources as Alfred Stieglitz and David Alfaro Siqueiros. After World War II, Strand traveled around the world—from New England to Ghana, France to the Outer Hebrides—to photograph, and in the process created a dynamic and significant body of work.