Text engl. Glossary of terms. Selected Bibliography. Contributors. Index. - Nebeneintrag. - Alisha Chipman works at the Library of Congress; Matthew L. Clarke works for the National Gallery of Art, the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
Text ital., engl. - This is vol. 1; vol. 2 containg correspondece is to follow. - The first of a two-volume box set (the second will include the correspondence of Paul Strand & Walter Rosenblum's long correspondence), the book Corrispondenze Elettive / Enduring Friendship collects, in two sections, 74 photographs by Paul Strand and Walter Rosenblum, mentors to one another, linked by a deep bond of esteem and affection. Both were members of the Photo League, and the two met in 1936 at the famous New York organization. Despite Strand moving to France, thanks to their extensive correspondence and visits to one another the two managed to keep their friendship alive, fortified by a continuous exchange of ideas, criticisms and suggestions on many different topics. The title "Correspondence Elettive" deliberately evokes Johann Wolfgang Goethe's novel "Elective Affinities" to emphasize the idea of two men and artists, each with their own artistic identity and humanity, who chose to travel along a stretch of their own path.