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THIS EXHIBITION, organized by Anthony Montoya, Director of the Paul Strand Archive, Aperture Foundation, includes 35 photographs by Paul Strand (1890-1972), one of America's pioneers of modernist photography. Each work in the exhibition was completed in the summers of 1930 through 1933, when Strand was living and working in New Mexico. Most of the images present three distinctly different subjects: photographs of Southwestern landscapes that demonstrate Strand's precise structuring of his subject; a series of portraits of his wife, Rebecca, who had been a subject in his work in the 1920s; and images of architectural forms--New Mexico churches, ghost towns and abandoned haciendas--whose degree of objectivity and realism reveal Strands increasing interest in making photographs that function as records of objective truth.

Anthony Montoya is director of the Paul Strand Archive, Aperture Foundation. He studied photography oat the University of new Mexico and has long since been engaged in furthering this interest. He began working on this exhibition in 2004, which premiered at the Cincinnati Art Museum. After being on view at the O'Keeffe Museum, it will travel to the Tacoma Art Museum.