Paul Strand Southwest

Paul Strand was a pioneer of photographic modernism and is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest American photographers of the twentieth century. This exhibition covers the years 1930 to 1932, a very productive and previously unexplored period of his career, when he lived and photographed in New Mexico. Absorbing the Southwest’s complex cultural history, Strand made pictures that merged realism with abstraction and formalism with a distinctive American romanticism.

Paul Strand Southwest features thirty-five vintage photographs, including dramatic landscapes, decayed ghost towns, the noble architecture of adobe churches, and the final austere portraits of his wife, Rebecca.

Paul Strand
Southwest