Museum of Art

This exhibition considers photography from its inception in 1839 to the present highlighting technological advances, aesthetic developments, and the acceptance of the medium as an art form. Free

This exhibition considers photography from its inception in 1839 to the present highlighting technological advances, aesthetic developments, and the acceptance of the medium as an art form. Free

Building on a new approach to portraiture Paul Strand initially explored while working in New England, his intensive and intimate photographic study of the residents of the small Italian village of Luzzara rigorously probed the limits of the genre.

Paul Strand, one of the greatest photographers in the history of the medium, is perhaps best known for his pictorialist studies from early in his career, his machine photographs of the 1920s, and his 1955 publication Un Paese: Portrait of an Italian Village. But some of Strand’s most compelling works, 25 of which form this exhibit, were taken in Vermont during the years 1943–1946, when he had just returned to still photography after almost a decade of making films. Free

Paul Strand, one of the greatest photographers in the history of the medium, is perhaps best known for his pictorialist studies from early in his career, his machine photographs of the 1920s, and his 1955 publication Un Paese: Portrait of an Italian Village. But some of Strand’s most compelling works, 25 of which form this exhibit, were taken in Vermont during the years 1943–1946, when he had just returned to still photography after almost a decade of making films. Free

Paul Strand, one of the greatest photographers in the history of the medium, is perhaps best known for his pictorialist studies from early in his career, his machine photographs of the 1920s, and his 1955 publication Un Paese: Portrait of an Italian Village. But some of Strand’s most compelling works, 25 of which form this exhibit, were taken in Vermont during the years 1943–1946, when he had just returned to still photography after almost a decade of making films. Free

Paul Strand, one of the greatest photographers in the history of the medium, is perhaps best known for his pictorialist studies from early in his career, his machine photographs of the 1920s, and his 1955 publication Un Paese: Portrait of an Italian Village. But some of Strand’s most compelling works, 25 of which form this exhibit, were taken in Vermont during the years 1943–1946, when he had just returned to still photography after almost a decade of making films. Free

Paul Strand, one of the greatest photographers in the history of the medium, is perhaps best known for his pictorialist studies from early in his career, his machine photographs of the 1920s, and his 1955 publication Un Paese: Portrait of an Italian Village. But some of Strand’s most compelling works, 25 of which form this exhibit, were taken in Vermont during the years 1943–1946, when he had just returned to still photography after almost a decade of making films. Free

Paul Strand, one of the greatest photographers in the history of the medium, is perhaps best known for his pictorialist studies from early in his career, his machine photographs of the 1920s, and his 1955 publication Un Paese: Portrait of an Italian Village. But some of Strand’s most compelling works, 25 of which form this exhibit, were taken in Vermont during the years 1943–1946, when he had just returned to still photography after almost a decade of making films. Free

Paul Strand, one of the greatest photographers in the history of the medium, is perhaps best known for his pictorialist studies from early in his career, his machine photographs of the 1920s, and his 1955 publication Un Paese: Portrait of an Italian Village. But some of Strand’s most compelling works, 25 of which form this exhibit, were taken in Vermont during the years 1943–1946, when he had just returned to still photography after almost a decade of making films. Free