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| Keywords: Wall Street by Paul Strand, 1915.jpg Artwork Creator Paul Strand Paul Strand took this photograph from the steps of the New York Federal Hall during morning rush hour The recently completed building of white marble at 23 Wall Street on the southeast corner of Wall and Broad Streets was located in one of the most expensive areas of real estate in New York City A symbol of financial power it was the new headquarters of J P Morgan and Company The photograph grew out of what the artist described as an attempt to capture a kind of movement that was at once abstract and controlled The long horizontal shadows of the figures counterpose the yawning dark verticals of the Morgan Bank ™s windows and the dynamism of their movement plays off of the building ™s solidity While this image evokes the tenor of urban existence in early twentieth century America it is just as important for its abstract formal patterns and structures which Strand believed were uncovered by the camera ™s objectivity The photograph can be seen as the quintessential representation of the uneasy relationship between early twentieth-century Americans and their new cities Here the people are seen not as individuals but as abstract silhouettes trailing long shadows down the chasms of commerce The intuitive empathy that Strand demonstrates for these workers of New York's financial district would be evident throughout the wide and varied career of this seminal American photographer and filmmaker who increasingly became involved with the hardships of working people around the world In this and his other early photographs of New York Strand helped set a trend toward pure photography of subject and away from the pictorialist imitation of painting 1915 photogravure cm 25 2 32 2 Institution Private collection place of discovery object history exhibition history credit line accession number place of creation NYC https //onlineonly christies com/s/america-the-beautiful/wall-street-and-five-others-from-camera-work-no-48-1919-63/25735 PD-old http //www philamuseum org/collections/permanent/73744 html mulR 478268343 http //collection whitney org/object/7841 http //www bridgemanimages com/en-US/asset/991523/ Q7962610 1915 photographs Paul Strand Photogravure Wall Street 1915 in New York City Camera Work | ||||
