Famous Photographers - Paul Strand
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Paul Strand (1890 – 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow Modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. His diverse body of work covers numerous genres and subjects, not to mention six decades and a variety of far-flung locales.
Born in New York City to Bohemian parents, Strand was a student of renowned documentary photographer Lewis Hine at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in his late teens. It was on a fieldtrip in this class that Strand first visited the 291 art gallery – operated by Stieglitz and Edward Steichen – where exhibitions of work by forward-thinking Modernist photographers and painters would convince Strand to take his photographic hobby more seriously. Stieglitz would later promote Strand's work both in the 291 itself and in his photography publication Camera Work. Some of this early work experimented with formal abstractions, while other works showed his interest in using the camera as a tool for social reform (no doubt inspired by Hine). Some works, like Wall Street managed to combine them both.
" Paul Strand was more than a great artist: he was a discoverer of the true potential of photography as the most dynamic medium of the twentieth century. Purity, elegance, and passion are the hallmarks of Strand's imagery." From description of Paul Strand, Aperture Masters of Photography.
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| Paul Strand Southwest | Paul Strand circa 1916 by Maria Hambourg | Paul Strand: The World on My Doorstep | Paul Strand: Photographs from The J. Paul Getty Museum |
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