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ARTS+LEISURE AUGUST 4, 2016
The Addison Independent
“I LIKE TO PHOTOGRAPH PEOPLE WHO HAVE STRENGTH AND DIGNITY IN THEIR FACES; WHATEVER LIFE HAS DONE TO THEM, IT HASN’T DESTROYED THEM. I GRAVITATE TOWARDS PEOPLE LIKE THAT.” — Paul Strand
Paul Strand captures Vermont
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aul Strand’s words hover over a series of black-andwhite photos featuring farmers, brides and scenes of an all-too-familiar rural Vermont in the Middlebury College Museum of Art this summer. The exhibition “Paul Strand in Vermont,” which runs through this Sunday, Aug. 7, displays some of the images that the world-famous photographer made while in Vermont from 1943 to 1946. The exhibit features 34 photographs — 28 of which are borrowed from the Philadelphia Museum of Art — and is the largest collection of Strand’s Vermont work ever displayed.
BY ELLIE REINHARDT
Richard Saunders, director of the Middlebury museum, curated
the Strand exhibit. “In the museum we’re always looking for ways to link important work that takes place in Vermont to the larger world,” Saunders said. Saunders first encountered Strand’s Vermont work in “Time in New England,” a book that Strand and Nancy Newhall, curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, collaborated on in 1950. “I was interested in when was he here, why did he come, what did he decide to photograph, how did it relate to his earlier work, how did it relate to his older work, what were some of the SEE STRAND ON PAGE 7