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The White Picket Fence

Paul Strand, 1976

In 2003 the Art Fund gave a grant of £342,000 for the acquisition of the entire collection and archive of the Royal Photographic Society. This work marked a landmark in Strand's career. In this year Alfred Stieglitz held an exhibition of Strand's work at his gallery 291 in New York, which celebrated him as a major new photographer who was 'devoid of trickery and any 'ism'' and 'brutally direct'. Focusing on the banal motif of a garden fence in Port Kent, New York - not quite rhythmic and, in places, somewhat battered - he encourages the viewer to scrutinise it as an object of consequence, and to attempt to gauge the spatial interval between it and the background buildings.

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Title of artwork, date

The White Picket Fence, 1976

Date supported

2003

Medium and material

Photogravure

Dimensions

17 x 22 cm

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