A bit about Paul strand. . . .
The American artist Paul
Strand had a long and productive career with the camera. His pictorialist
studies of the 1910s, followed by the coolly seductive machine photographs of
the 1920s, like the contemporary work of Alfred Stieglitz
and Edward Weston, helped define the canon of early American modernism and set
its premium on the elegant print. Experimenting with Charles Sheeler,
Strand then pushed further in describing the movement of the city in the short
film Manhatta (1920). In the 1930s, he became seriously involved with
documentary film and, from the 1940s until the end of his life, he was committed
to making photographic books of the highest quality. After 1950, when he
relocated to France, landscape, architecture, and portraiture (the traditional
humanist genres) continued to inspire Strand to embody the spirit of his
subjects in the very materials of the photographic print. The high regard for
his mature work suggests that he succeeded in his goals, and that his standards
of excellence and his constancy of subject answered very human needs in a
century of radical change.
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