Paul strand photography abstract

Photograph by Paul Strand

Abstraction, Porch Shadows, also known as Abstraction, Porch Shadows, Twin Lakes, Connecticut, is a black and white photograph taken by Paul Strand in 1916.

Paul strand photography abstract

It is one of the best known photographs of his early phase, and shows the influence of cubism and abstractionism. It is considered one of the first abstract photographs ever made.^[1][2]

History and description

Strand spent the Summer of 1916 at a cottage in Twin Lakes, Connecticut.

Strand's interest and understanding of the cubist esthetics, "abstraction through fragmentation, multiple points of view, and a reduction of people and objects to basic geometry", according to The Art Institute of Chicago website, led him to transform everyday objects, like furniture and crockery, into works of abstract photographic art.

In this case, Strand took aim to a round table located in a terrace porch. He abandoned the traditional photographic perspecti