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The garden at Orgeval /

By: Strand, Paul, 1890-1976 [photographer].
Contributor(s): Meyerowitz, Joel, 1938- [editor].
Publisher: New York : Aperture Foundation; 2012Description: ix, [96] pages : chiefly illustrations ; 28 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781597111249; 1597111244.Other title: Paul Strand : the garden at Orgeval.Subject(s): Strand, Paul, 1890-1976 -- Homes and haunts -- France -- Orgeval (Yvelines) -- Pictorial works | Strand, Paul, 1890-1976 | Gardens -- France -- Orgeval (Yvelines) -- Pictorial works | Photography of gardens | Photography of gardens -- France -- Orgeval (Yvelines) | Photography of plants | Photography of plants -- France -- Orgeval (Yvelines) | Nature photography | Orgeval (Yvelines, France) -- Pictorial worksDDC classification: 779.3644366 Summary: After a lifetime of working on a series of collective portraits in far-flung places such as Mexico; Ghana; Italy; Tir aMhurain, Scotland; and his adoptive country, France, an aging Paul Strand decided to concentrate on still lifes and the stony beauty of his own garden at Orgeval, France, as a site in which to distill his discoveries as a photographer. The work that constitutes 'The Garden at Orgeval' is marked by close and careful study of the forms and patterns within nature of tiny buttonshaped flowers, cascading winter branches, and fierce snarls of twigs.
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After a lifetime of working on a series of collective portraits in far-flung places such as Mexico; Ghana; Italy; Tir aMhurain, Scotland; and his adoptive country, France, an aging Paul Strand decided to concentrate on still lifes and the stony beauty of his own garden at Orgeval, France, as a site in which to distill his discoveries as a photographer. The work that constitutes 'The Garden at Orgeval' is marked by close and careful study of the forms and patterns within nature of tiny buttonshaped flowers, cascading winter branches, and fierce snarls of twigs.

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