Paul Strand
"Under the El, New York, 1915"
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This video covers the importance of this piece, the paper Paul Strand used to print the image, and other key details.

When Paul Strand (1890 - 1976) took this photograph in 1915 his work was more advanced than anything his colleagues with cameras had achieved at the time. Titled “Under the El” it represents one of the earliest examples of Modernist Photography showing the transition from Pictorialism into Modernism and fully embracing photographic vision to produce abstraction. Alfred Stieglitz praised Strand’s work from this time as “the direct expression of today.” In fact, Strand's work is almost entirely responsible for the rise of the Modernist movement in Photography.

This is a Gelatin Silver Print on Cykora paper and was printed by Paul Strand in 1945. Cykora is a warm black-toned chlorobromide paper manufactured by Agfa-Ansco. The print is flush-mounted back-to-back to a processed piece of the same photographic paper as was Strand’s habit. Strand toned, then waxed the print, which has given its palette a long-lasting richness and an unusually wide range of grays between the deeper shadows and highlights.

In 1945, Strand had a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Strand made chlorobromide paper prints of thirteen images for the exhibition and this image was one of them. The only earlier known print of this image is a vintage platinum print in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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