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Photomicrograph showing print surface and orange stains (scale bar is in micrometers) -
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A photogravure reproduction of this work in Camera Work
Paul Strand (American, 1890–1976)
Porch Shadows, 1916
Silver-platinum print; 33.1 x 22.9 cm (image); 33.7 x 23.4 cm (paper); 43.7 x 32.2 cm (secondary support)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.885
© Paul Strand Archive/Aperture Foundation
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.885
© Paul Strand Archive/Aperture Foundation
Paul Strand spent the summer of 1916 at his family’s cottage in Twin Lakes, Connecticut, attempting to give his understanding of Cubist painting—achieving abstraction through fragmentation, presenting multiple points of view, and reducing people and objects to basic geometry—a photographic form. A photogravure reproduction of Porch Shadows appeared in the final issue of Camera Work, clearly signaling the new straight aesthetic favored by Strand, Stieglitz, and other modernist photographers.
Additional resources related to this object are to the right. Comprehensive material analysis can be found in the Object Research PDF.