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The Family, Luzzara

The Family, Luzzara

1953
(American, 1890–1976)
Image: 11.7 x 15 cm (4 5/8 x 5 7/8 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
Photographs by Paul Strand © Aperture Foundation, Inc., Paul Strand Archive
Location: not on view

Description

The Family, Luzzara is one of a remarkable set of images Paul Strand made during the course of five months spent in the Italian village of Luzzara, in the Po River valley. This group portrait depicts the Lusetti family of tenant farmers in front of their house. The matriarch of the family is framed in the darkened doorway, surrounded by five of her eight surviving sons. Positioning the family members frontally and close to the camera, Strand conveyed very specific information about their physical characteristics and personalities, even though he intended them to be seen as enduring symbols of universal human qualities.
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 50-51; Reproduced: P. 338
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    The Cleveland Museum of Art (6/24/07 - 9/16/07) and Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittburgh, PA (10/3/2009 - 1/3/2010); "Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art", no exhibition catalogue.
    CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art," see Catalogue of Photography, pp. 50-51.
    Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997).
    Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).
    CMA, June 7 - September 8, 1991: "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum."
    The Year in Review for 1985. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-April 20, 1986).
    CMA, February 12 - April 20, 1986: "Year in Review 1985," CMA Bulletin, 73 (Feb. 1986), p. 66, no. 115, repr. p. 58.
  • {{cite web|title=The Family, Luzzara|url=false|author=Paul Strand|year=1953|access-date=28 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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