Bowls (photograph)

The photograph has elements of cubism and abstractionism, and exemplifies his style at the time.

[1] Strand became motivated by the work of Cubist painters and sculptors like Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Constantin Brâncuși, to create photographs of objects inspired by their geometrical forms.

In this picture, one of several taken during a stay in Twin Lakes, Connecticut, he took a close-up of four regular kitchen bowls.

The photograph highlights their circular shapes, and the effect of light and shadows on these objects.

[2] Mike North stated that in this picture "soft focus and composition clearly collude to dilute the referential just enough to make four bowls into a work of art".