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Paul Strand (October_16, 1890 – March_31, 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, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe and Africa.
Early Modernism
Born in New York City to Bohemian parents, in his late teens Strand was a student of renowned documentary photographer Lewis Hine at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School. It was while 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 move 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).
Film-making
Over the next few decades, Strand got into motion pictures as well as still photography. His first motion picture project was Manhatta, (also known as New York the Magnificent) a silent film showing the day-to-day life of New York City made with painter/photographer Charles Sheeler. Manhatta, made in 1920, includes a shot similar to Strand's famous Wall Street (1915) photograph. Other films he was involved with included Redes, (released in the US as The Wave), a film commissioned by the Mexican government in 1936, and the pro-union, anti-fascist Native Land, released in 1942. Strand was closely involved with Frontier Films, one of more than twenty organizations that were branded as ‘subversive’ and ‘un-American’ by the US Attorney General. More on [ Paul Strand ]
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@ JacquelineJM @karol1ne @thierrymaes Paul de Leeuw toen op het strand vam Avilla Beach, toasten in bermuda :-)) http://twurl.nl/nnogry
@JacquelineJM @karol1ne @thierrymaes Paul de Leeuw toen op het strand vam Avilla Beach, toasten in bermuda :-))
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@JacquelineJM @karol1ne @thierrymaes Paul de Leeuw toen op het strand vam Avilla Beach, toasten in bermuda :-))
âIt is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanity.â â Paul Strand
JayOtt (Jay Ott) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:41:33 -0000
“It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanity.” – Paul Strand
Imperdonable no incluir "Redes", de Emilio Gómez Muriel y Fred Zinnemann (1936), filmada en Alvarado. Foto Paul Strand. Música S. Revueltas.
tuiteante (M D A) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:01:50 -0000
Imperdonable no incluir "Redes", de Emilio Gómez Muriel y Fred Zinnemann (1936), filmada en Alvarado. Foto Paul Strand. Música S. Revueltas.
Auction Closing - 6 Strand Multimode Fiber Optic - Saint Paul,MN - $30.00http://www.sh-ur.info/ch/64043
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Auction Closing - 6 Strand Multimode Fiber Optic - Saint Paul,MN - $30.00http://www.sh-ur.info/ch/64043
Just bought "Paul Strand-Sixty Years of Photography". Good stuff, to underestimate his work. #photogs #photos #fb http://twitpic.com/vle7l
IanLivesey (IanLivesey) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:36:32 -0000
Just bought "Paul Strand-Sixty Years of Photography". Good stuff, to underestimate his work. #photogs #photos #fb http://twitpic.com/vle7l
Circle's Edge! A database Dedicated to Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe and Paul Strand. - Circles Edge is an ongoing project designed to locate, describe, and index letters and manuscripts written and received by heretofore overlooked associates of twentieth century American artists Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe and Paul Strand.
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Strand, Paul - Slate Magazine article about Strand and his place in the history of photography.
Meta Description: [ Paul Strand (1890-1976) enjoyed a long and prolific career spanning what amounts to five or six generations in the compressed history of 20 th century photography. In the last 60 of those years he made an impressive number of worthy images, full of human d ]
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