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Strand

Item number (ISN):

175209

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1986/1988

Item number (ISN):

175209

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

JOHN WALKER PRODUCTIONS LTD.

Accession:

1991-0065

Media:

Film

Original title:

Strand

Production date:

1986/1988

Production company:

John Walker Productions Ltd.

Production credit:

producer/director/commentary/photography, John Walker; associate producer, Tom Perlmutter; Anne Koyama; writer, Seaton Findlay; sound, Aerlyn Weissman; Jean-Pierre Delorme; David Springbett; Bob Withey; editing, Cathy Gulkin; John Kramer; Geoff Bowie; music, Jean Derome; voice, Paul Soles; Harvey Atkin

Country of production:

cn

Distributor name:

Creative Exposure Ltd.

Description:

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Although his influence on the history of photography has been nothing short of profound, Paul Strand (1890-1976) remains a curiously shrouded and persistently paradoxical figure. White passionately devoted to humanity, he was happiest in the isolation of the darkroom. A pioneer filmmaker, he found the process of collaboration painful. Born and depply rooted in America, he spent the last thirty years of his life exiled in Europe. An artist who defined the modernist aesthetic in photography, Strand was virtually ignored for long periods of his career.~STRAND is both a portrait of a complex artist and a personal odyssey for the filmmaker, himself profoundly influenced by the work of Strand. Following the tracks of Strand's long, peripatetic life as it meanders from New York and Mexico to the Gaspé and New England, from france and Italy to Africa and the Outer Hebrides and as it intersects with personalities as vivid and influential as mentor Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keefe, Milton Brown, Fred Zinneman, Leo Hurwitz, Cesare Zavattini, Virginia Stevens and Hazel Kingsbury, STRAND takes us on a journey that is as spiritual and psychological as it is physical and historical.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. The running time is based on the measured length of the archives' master print.~2. First shown 1989-09-14 at the Festival of Festivals, Toronto.

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Vault ISN:

166966

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9102-0328
9102-0329
9102-0330
9102-0331
9102-0332
9102-0333
9102-0334
9102-0335
9102-0336

Number of items:

9

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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