Skirts

Clare Strand

2011

A gelatin silver print of a carefully staged, skirted circular table that reads like a silent theatrical set, asking viewers to project narratives and reconsider photography’s claim to straightforward evidence.

What strikes you is the eerie stillness: a pale tabletop appears to float above a ring of dark, pleated fabric against heavy curtains, the subtle shifts of black and gray concentrating attention on an absent presence.

Strand’s work belongs to a strand of conceptual, staged photography that uses minimalist mise-en-scène to undermine documentary certainty and open a space for ambiguity, narrative invention, and reflection on how images construct meaning.

Palette

Exhibitions

Paul Strand: Photographs 1915–1945

1945

Paul Strand, 1890–1976

1976

New Photography 2: Philip Lorca di Corcia, Mary Frey, and David Hanson

1986

Photographs by Bill Brandt, Harry Callahan, Ted Croner, Lisette Model

1948