Paul Strand

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Paul Strand Young Boy, Gondeville, Charente, France [Muchacho, Gondeville, Charente, Francia], 1916. FRANCE © Aperture Foundation, Inc., Paul Strand Archive © COLECCIONES Fundación MAPFRE

Very close in his beginnings to photographers like A. Stieglitz or L. Hine, Paul Strand soon absorbed the characteristics of the social and documentary photography of the early 20th century to start a unique trajectory from which some of the foundations of the modern photography are based. If one had to summarize the history of photography in 10 images, Blind Woman (1916) would undoubtedly be one of them because of the way in which the conception of the photographic portrait changed.

Between 2011 and 2015, the Fundación MAPFRE acquired a set of 131 images by Strand, which became part of the photography collection—forming the most extensive collection of the New Yorker in Europe.

This exhibition includes a selection of 110 of those works of art and is the first exhibition of the Fundación MAPFRE collections to be unveiled in Barcelona.

The journey around Paul Strand’s work is divided into four sections, geometries, landscapes, portraits and countries, which stem from the artist’s way of working and his way of understanding the world.

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