About this artwork
Paul Strand may have wanted to make this portrait because of the rather magnificent hat, a quasi-sculptural creation of leather, fabric, and wire. Like his photographs do, the hat marries a craftsman’s dexterity with materials to a mechanical form. But Strand would never have photographed the hat without its wearer. In his later years especially, socialist societies and their promise of a better humanity formed his deepest concern. The beautiful, somewhat androgynous Dorin Pintile is a worker in the oil industry, a vital engine for communist Romania.
See also: Mark Crinson, “Paul Strand’s Ghana and Photography after Colonialism,” Art Bulletin (December 2016)
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Paul Strand
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Title
- Dorin Pintile, Onesti, Rumania
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- Made 1967
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Medium
- Gelatin silver print
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Dimensions
- Image: 24.2 × 19.4 cm (9 9/16 × 7 11/16 in.); Paper/mount: 24.9 × 20.2 cm (9 13/16 × 8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Walter Rosenblum
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Reference Number
- 1992.303
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Copyright
- © Paul Strand Archive/Aperture Foundation
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