Akeley Motion Picture Camera
Strand had purchased the movie camera only days before he photographed it. His delight in the finely tooled instrument with which he planned to earn his living is evident in the series of photographs he made. This one shows the film-movement mechanism inside the clamshell case. That the camera is depicted upside-down is not irrelevant; the picture works only this way.
Artwork Details
- Title: Akeley Motion Picture Camera
- Artist: Paul Strand (American, New York 1890–1976 Orgeval, France)
- Date: 1922
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 24.5 x 19.5 cm (9 5/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
- Object Number: 1987.1100.3
- Rights and Reproduction: © Aperture Foundation, Inc., Paul Strand Archive
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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Paul Strand
1933, printed 1940
Paul Strand
1933, printed 1940
Paul Strand
1933, printed 1940
Paul Strand
1933, printed 1940
Paul Strand
1933, printed 1940
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