Paul Strand: The Garden at Orgeval: Selection and Essay by Joel Meyerowitz

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HardCover. Pub Date :2012-10-01 Pages: 96 Language: English Publisher: Aperture T & HFL12 After a lifetime of working on a series of collective portraits in far-flung places such as Mexico; Ghana; Italy; Tir a'Mhurain . 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. While the images bear the same directness and precise vision that is quintessentially Strand. the work also reflects a growing metaphorical turn. Renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz-whose own affinity toward Strand's Orgeval ser...