Author

Contributions

  • Strand, Paul, 1890-1976. - Contributor

Publication

2001 - Aperture, New York, N.Y, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

29,750 words, Guess

Page Count

119 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more
  • LibraryThing2827623
  • Library of Congress Control Number00111698
  • OCLC Control Number47297076
  • Better World Books9780893818746

Classifications

  • DDC944
  • LCCDC20 .R7513 2001
  • LCCDC20.R7513 2001

Description

"In this first English translation of La France de Profil, Paul Strand's photographs, combined with commentary by the celebrated French poet Claude Roy, capture the essence of rural life in postwar France. Like Strand's renowned books, Time in New England and Un Paese, La France de Profil is a profound meditation on place. Strand's portraits of the young and old evoke a sense of history and character. Images of narrow alleys, old tobacco shops, sidewalk cafes, and open fields convey the textures and rhythms of the French countryside. His photographs are complemented by Roy's collages, made from small-town newspapers and his own wry, handwritten musings on French mentality and mores." "La France de Profil is not only a tribute to a way of life that still exists in the French countryside but a monument to the evocative power of skillfully synthesized pictures and text."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Genres

  • Pictorial works

Links

Other Editions

  • La France de profilAperture2001-01-01

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