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Wall Street is a platinum palladium print photograph by the American photographer Paul Strand taken in 1915. There are currently only two vintage prints of this photograph with one at the Whitney Museum of American Art (printed posthumously) and the other, along with negatives, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
28 ott 2010 · Collection. Paul Strand. Wall Street, New York. 1915, printed 1976–1977. Not on view. Date. 1915, printed 1976–1977. Classification. Photographs. Medium. Platinum palladium print. Dimensions. Sheet: 11 × 13 7/8in. (27.9 × 35.2 cm) Image: 10 1/8 × 12 11/16in. (25.7 × 32.2 cm) Accession number. 91.102.2. Edition. 21/100. Credit line.
Paul Strand. Wall Street. 1915. Photogravure. 5 × 6 7/16" (12.8 × 16.3 cm). Anonymous gift. 235.1966. © Aperture Foundation Inc., Paul Strand Archive. Photography
Image Size: 10 1/8 x 12 5/8 inches. Paper Size: 20 x 16 inches. Edition of 500 + 20 AP. Authorizing seal of Paul Strand Archive. About the Artist. Paul Strand (b. 1890, New York; d. 1976, Orgeval, France) was one of the great photographers of the twentieth century.
Some of this early work, like the well-known Wall Street, experimented with formal abstractions (influencing, among others, Edward Hopper and his idiosyncratic urban vision). [5] Other of Strand's works reflect his interest in using the camera as a tool for social reform. [citation needed]
Wall Street is an historically significant image, both for Strand and for the development of photographic art. It marked a clear departure from a style of soft-focused Pictorialism (practiced hitherto by Strand) whereby the photographer used a camera and dark-room manipulation to produce images that mimicked that rather unfashionable (by ...
Paul Strand's iconic Wall Street is a sophisticated composition that demonstrates the synthesis of two of the modernist photographer's preferred subjects from the 1910s: individuals negotiating a rapidly changing city and geometric abstraction.
