Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo
Retrospective 1915-1976. The exhibition brings together for the first time in Spain pictures from all the different periods of Strands career, between 1915 and 1976. The display is divided into different sections, from the beginning in Manhattan to the series devoted to "machine and the progress", "Family roots", and "The infinity of life in my garden".
The Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza presents the first ever retrospective exhibition to be held in Spain of the work of North American photographer Paul Strand (New York City, 1890 Orgeval, France, 1976). The exhibition, which is also the first full retrospective of Strands work to be held in Europe for at least thirty years, will be on show in the Foundation's headquarters in A Coruña from 3 July to 14 September and then in the Foundation's premises in Vigo, from 2 October to 11 January 2009.
The exhibition Paul Strand. A Retrospective 1915-1976, produced by the Foundation and curated by Rafael Llano, brings together for the first time in Spain pictures from all the different periods of Strands career, between 1915 and 1976.
The exhibition is organized by the Foundation in collaboration with the Aperture Foundation, a New-York based photographic publisher, exhibition gallery and depositary of the Paul Strand Archive, and with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, who have lent the 114 images, all of them vintage prints (60 from the Aperture Foundation and 54 from the Philadelphia Museum of Art), that comprise the exhibition. This exclusive exhibition signals the return of the Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza to its series of temporary exhibitions devoted to great photographers of the past, which has brought to Spain the work of Arnold Newman, Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams and most recently, in 2005, the exhibition Icons: the best in photography and film from George Eastman House.
An exhibition in ten sections
The exhibition has been divided into the following ten sections to enable visitors to understand the various artistic and thematic periods in Strand's work:
1. In the beginning there was Manhattan.
1. Discovery of the photographic form.
2. The living city.
3. Its inhabitants: candid portraits.
4. The beauty of machines.
2. The camera investigates Nature.
3. The camera investigates culture: Mexico.
4. North American history and traditions.
5. European peoples and cultures: France, Italy, Scotland.
6. Workers of our time
7. Democracy around the world.
1. Islamic countries: Egypt, Morocco.
2. Africa.
8. The machine and the progress.
9. Family roots.
10. The infinity of life in my garden.
The exhibition will include the projection of the movie directed by Strand: Mannahatan (1921). His movies Redes [The Wave] (1934) and Native Land (1942) will be projected in the Foundation auditorium.
Pedro Barrie' de la Maza Foundation
Canton Grande 9 - A Coruna