Portrait, Gondeville, Charente, France, 1951
Photograph
1951 (Photographed)
1951 (Photographed)
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| Place of origin |
In 1950 photographer and film-maker Paul Strand left New York for Europe, where he and his wife, Hazel, would remain until his death in 1976. Having settled in Orgeval, a small town near Paris, they began travelling widely, Strand was searching for ‘the perfect village’, sustained by hard-working and honest inhabitants coexisting harmoniously with nature and machines. The straw man in this photograph was seen by Strand to represent this idyll.
Object details
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| Title | Portrait, Gondeville, Charente, France, 1951 |
| Materials and techniques | Delicate object, only to be handled by the mount. |
| Brief description | 'Portrait, Gondeville, Charente, France, 1951', photograph by Paul Strand (born New York 1890, died Orgeval, France 1976) |
| Physical description | Three-quarter length portrait of a mustachioed old man wearing a beret. |
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| Credit line | Given by the American Friends of the V&A through the generosity of Michael E. Hoffman |
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| Summary | In 1950 photographer and film-maker Paul Strand left New York for Europe, where he and his wife, Hazel, would remain until his death in 1976. Having settled in Orgeval, a small town near Paris, they began travelling widely, Strand was searching for ‘the perfect village’, sustained by hard-working and honest inhabitants coexisting harmoniously with nature and machines. The straw man in this photograph was seen by Strand to represent this idyll. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.132-2005 |
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| Record created | February 15, 2005 |
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