[Office Buildings from Below, New York]

Inscription: Signed and inscribed in pencil on print, verso LR: "-Paul Strand- // -1917-"; signed and inscribed in pencil on mount, recto LR: "-Paul Strand-1917-"; inscribed in pencil in unknown hand, verso LL: "Strand, Paul // New York (1917) // Platinumtype-"; inscribed in ink in the hand of Alfred Stieglitz on a blue and white paper label formerly affixed to the print mount?, now affixed to mat board: "Stieglitz Collection // New York - by Paul Strand - // 1917 // Platinotype"

Paul Strand; Alfred Stieglitz

This print was made from an enlarged negative. There is a 0.3 - 0.5 cm. black border surrounding the image which is included in the image size dimensions.

X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry, a non-invasive method for elemental analysis, confirmed that the image material for this print is platinum. (See also Barro in References)

John Wanamaker. "Thirteenth Annual Exhibition of Photographs," March 4, 1918–March 16, 1918.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Camera Out of Doors," September 17–November 29, 1959.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Thirty Photographers: A Selection from the Museum's Collection," April 12–June 1, 1969.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Landscape/Cityscape: A Selection of Twentieth-Century American Photographs," November 13, 1973–February 3, 1974.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz," May 18–July 16, 1978.

Montclair Art Museum. "Precisionism in America 1915-1941: Reordering Reality," November 20, 1994–January 22, 1995.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Paul Strand and His Contemporaries," February 10–May 31, 1998.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Paul Strand: Circa 1916," June 19, 1998–September 15, 1998.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Johnson Gallery, Selections from the Collection 44," August 29, 2006–January 7, 2007.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand," November 8, 2010–April 10, 2011.

Naef, Weston J. The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz: Fifty Pioneers of Modern Photography. 1st ed. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978.

Precisionism in America, 1915–1941: Reordering Reality. New York: Abrams, 1994. p. 79, fig. 7.

Hambourg, Maria Morris. Paul Strand: Circa 1916. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998. no. 48.

Barro, Lisa. "The Deterioration of Paul Strand's Satista Prints." Topics in Photographic Preservation 10 (2003). pp. 37–54.