Women of Santa Ana, Lake Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico
Photograph
Women of Santa Ana, Lake Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico
Women of Santa Ana, Michocan, Mexico
1933
Gelatin silver print
Image: 19.3 × 24.2 cm (7 5/8 × 9 1/2 in.)
Paper: 20.6 × 25 cm (8 1/8 × 9 13/16 in.)
Matted: 35.6 × 43.2 × 0.3 cm (14 × 17 × 1/8 in.)
Purchased from the photographer
1981.2031.0008
Inscriptions verso-(signature and handwritten notations in ink by artist) title,
"1933", "Paul Strand", (handwritten in pencil) "12cm"
"1933", "Paul Strand", (handwritten in pencil) "12cm"
TextIn the first of his two years in Mexico (1932–34), Paul Strand circumvented the protests of camera-resistant indigenous peoples by affixing a prism to his lens that allowed him to photograph people without their knowledge. In the Mexico portraits, Strand maintained the direct approach that he had advocated in his youth—intense objectivity, he had argued, revealed the “living expression” of the individual pictured. Although he ignored the protests of Mexico’s indigenous peoples, as an artist who deployed his art to address social and political injustice, Strand photographed his subjects with respect and compassion.
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