- Artist/Maker:
- Paul Strand
- Bio:
- American, 1890-1976
- Title:
- Wall Street, New York
- Portfolio/Series:
- Camera Work
- Date:
- 1915
- Medium:
- Photogravure
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 7/8 × 8 1/4 in. (30.2 × 21 cm) Image: 5 3/16 × 6 3/8 in. (13.2 × 16.2 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund
- Accession Number:
- 2011-42
- Copyright:
- Copyright © Aperture Foundation, Inc., Paul Strand Archive
Not On View
This photograph was originally called “Pedestrians Raked by Morning Light in a Canyon of Commerce,” and is as elemental and poetic as that title. Strand deliberately contrasts the imposing design of the new J. P. Morgan Co. building at 23 Wall Street with the dwarfed figures of men and women on the street and their vivid shadows.
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