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19-7/8 x 15-7/8 in. (sheet)
Mark Descriptioninscribed in pencil, below image, L.L.: Paul Strand, New Jersey 1947 | signed and dated in pencil, below image, L.R.: 1980 Morris Engel | inscribed, signed and dated in pencil, verso, L.L.: For Sam Mahl, Best, Morris Engel / 8/27/88
Accession NumberGift of G.W. Einstein Company, Inc.
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color PaletteSam Mahl, by gift from the artist, 1988
Paul Strand, one of the Old Masters of American photography, is seen preparing his enormous view camera to take a close-up of the foliage along a path in New Jersey. It is one of a sequence of photographs of Strand at work, taken that day in 1947 by his friend Morris Engel. [new para] Engel named Strand "one of the most important men in my life." Strand had mentored Engel from the beginning of his career in New York in 1936, had written the introduction for the catalogue of Engel’s first one-man show in 1939, and had introduced him to filmmaking, the career path Engel chose to follow after his distinguished stint as a combat photographer during World War II.
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