Man with a Hoe, Los Remedios
Paul Strand
Description
Subject Matter:
This is a photograph of a man holding a hoe, wearing soiled campesino clothing and a straw sun hat. He has a soiled cloth draped over his shoulder. He has a dark handlebar moustache and dark hair that extends past his chin. He sits in front of a stone wall, looking out of frame. Strand used a prism lens to disguise his intentions when photographing his human subjects during his time in Mexico. In order to capture his images of people his lens directed the light at a right angle, while appearing to shoot from the front.
This photograph is from Paul Strand's The Mexican Portfolio published in 1967 by Paul Strand. The portfolio consists of a series of 20 images depicting Mexico's people, architecture, landscape, and churches. It was first published in 1940 under the name Photographs of Mexico, and reprinted under Strand's supervision in 1967 as The Mexican Portfolio.
Physical Description:
Portrait of a man holding a hoe, wearing soiled campesino clothing. He sits in front of a stone wall, looking out of frame.
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