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Abstraction, Porch Shadows, Twin Lakes, Connecticut

Photograph
1916 (photographed), 1983 (printed and published)
Artist/Maker
Silver Mountain Foundation for the Arts (publisher)
Strand, Paul (photographer)
Goodman, Jon (printer)
Place of origin
USA (published)
Connecticut (photographed)

A black and white photograph depicting shadows being cast through slatted porch railings onto what appears to be a garden table turned onto its side.

Object details

Category
Photographs
Object type
Photograph
Titles
  • Abstraction, Porch Shadows, Twin Lakes, Connecticut (assigned by artist)
  • Paul Strand the Formative Years, 1914-1917 (series title)
Materials and techniques
Hand-pulled dust grain photogravure made by the Talbot-Klic photogravure process printed onto Lana Gravure paper
Paper
Talbot-Klic
Brief description
Photograph by Paul Strand, 'Abstraction, Porch Shadows, Twin Lakes, Connecticut', from the portfolio 'Paul Strand the Formative Years, 1914-1917', a portfolio of ten hand-pulled dust grain photogravures printed by Jon Goodman, published by the Silver Mountain Foundation with an introduction by Ben Lifson, USA, 1983, photographed 1916
Physical description
A black and white photograph depicting shadows being cast through slatted porch railings onto what appears to be a garden table turned onto its side.
Dimensions
  • Height: 30.2cm
  • Width: 20.4cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990
Copy number
235/300
Gallery label
20th century gallery label:
E.1962-1990
Abstraction, porch shadows (Paul Strand)

Strand pointed his camera downward in this photograph to emphasise the curves and rectangles of the subject. This allows the viewer to observe the integration of solid structures and space. Experiments with abstract form in photography like this, especially in Germany and America, introduced a new way of seeing during the first part of the 20th century
Production
The film positives were made from enlarged internegatives made by Paul Strand between 1916 and 1917 from his original negatives of 1914-16. The plates were made by Jon Goodman and printed under his supervision at Atelier de Taille Douce, Saint-Preux, Switzerland and at the Photogravure workshop, Millerton, New York, on Lana Gravure paper from the Papeteries de Lana, Docelles, France.
Subject depicted
Shadows
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1962-1990

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Record createdFebruary 23, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O190909/abstraction-porch-shadows-twin-lakes-photograph-strand-paul/
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