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STRAND, Paul - Ghana. An African Portrait

Name: STRAND, Paul - Ghana. An African Portrait
SKU: 104502

Product number: 104502

For out-of-print book 'Ghana. An African Portrait', Paul STRAND collected and found motifs - landscapes, architecture, portraits, street scenes - that were suitable for documenting the transition to modernization of Ghana, who had declared as independent.

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Of all the places Paul STRAND worked - New England, France, Italy, the Hebrides, Romania, Egypt, Morocco - his photographs from Ghana in 1963 and 1964, which resulted in the photo volume 'Ghana. An African Portrait', count to his most comprehensive travel work. That's partly because he felt welcome there. He has officially been invited to document the country by its first prime minister and president, Kwame Nkrumah. He was given a guide and a driver to accompany him and his wife Hazel through Ghana’s diverse landscapes, easing his access to situations that might have otherwise been difficult to broach.
With its recent independence from colonial rule, Ghana was an ideal location for documentation. Things were changing quickly there, and the American photographer was interested in Nkrumah’s efforts to modernize the country through industry and economic initiatives.

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For this out-of-print photo volume, 'Ghana. An African Portrait' Paul STRAND sought of several motifs - landscapes, architecture, portraiture, street scenes, artifacts such as crafts, and details like rocks and foliage - like he had done in the 1920 and 30s. Especially the second part of the book with its industrial workers and structures that he has photographed, surprises and remembers a little to early works by Charles SHEELER, E.O. HOPPE or Germaine KRULL.