Im Fotomuseum Winterthur wird die umfassende Werkschau eines der wichtigsten Fotografen des 20. Jahrhunderts gezeigt Bereits in jungen Jahren weiss Paul
‘Paul Strand: Photography and Film for the 20th Century’ retrospective opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Along with Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand was one of the defining masters of early American modernist photography. Strand was introduced to photography by the renowned social docum…
Gallery: Paul Strand, working in the middle years of the 20th century, created photographs unsurpassed in their lustre, strange humanity and compositional rigour. Look at some of his finest work, coming to a major retrospective in Philadelphia
Paul Strand, photographer whose work influenced the emphasis on sharp-focused, objective images in 20th-century American photography. When he was 17 years old, Strand began to study photography wit…
To mark the opening of a major retrospective of Strand’s work at the V&A, we celebrate the remarkable life and creative legacy of the photo and film pioneer
Gallery: Paul Strand, working in the middle years of the 20th century, created photographs unsurpassed in their lustre, strange humanity and compositional rigour. Look at some of his finest work, coming to a major retrospective in Philadelphia
Andrew Dickson on the photographer Paul Strand, whose work is featured in a retrospective at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum.
American photographer and filmmaker Paul Strand began photographing in New York in 1910 and ended his career in France in 1976. An exhibition of his work, Paul Strand: Photography and Film for the 20th Century, is currently on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London until July 3.
Photographer Paul Strand visited Canada at least five times, travelling twice to the Gaspé Peninsula and creating images that record his change of style.
Paul Strand es uno de los fotógrafos del siglo XX cuya influencia aún sigue permeando a los creadores en el nuevo milenio. El profundizar en sus imágenes es realizar un viaje a la autonomía estétic…
Paul Strand, photographer whose work influenced the emphasis on sharp-focused, objective images in 20th-century American photography. When he was 17 years old, Strand began to study photography wit…
Strand was willing to sit and wait for the world to look the way it does when nobody notices it.
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Paul Strand, photographer whose work influenced the emphasis on sharp-focused, objective images in 20th-century American photography. When he was 17 years old, Strand began to study photography wit…
‘Paul Strand: Photography and Film for the 20th Century’ retrospective opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum
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After helping to define modernism with his shots of New York, Paul Strand went to Italy to make political work about everyday people. Now 73, Angelo Secchi shares her memories of when he came to Luzzara
Along with Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand was one of the defining masters of early American modernist photography. Strand was introduced to photography by the renowned social docum…
Paul Strand, the son of immigrants from Bohemia (now western Czechoslovakia), was born in New York City on 16th October, 1890. Strand was given his first camera by his father when he was twelve years old. Two years later he joined the Ethical Culture School where he was taught by Lewis Hine, who at that time was involved in a project photographing immigrants arriving at Ellis Island. Strand joined Hine's extra-curricular course in photography. Hine also took Strand to the Photo-Secession Gallery at 291 Fifth Avenue and introduced him to the work of Alfred Stieglitz, David Octavius Hill, Julia Margaret Cameron, Gertrude Kasebier and Clarence White. A member of the the Camera Club, Strand worked for an insurance company after graduation in 1911. However, two years later he became a self-employed commercial photographer in 1911. He worked closely with Alfred Stieglitz, who was a strong advocate of what he called Straight Photography. In 1916 Strand's photographs appeared in Camera Work and Stieglitz wrote that "Strand is without doubt the most important photographer developed in this country since Alvin Langdon Coburn." During the First World War Strand was a member of the Army Medical Corps. After the war, Strand collaborated with Charles Scheeler on the documentary film, Mannahatta (1925). Strand continued with his work as a motion picture cameraman when he worked on the film The Wave (1933). With the onset of the Depression Strand became active in politics. A committed socialist, he worked with he Group Theatre that had been formed in New York by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg in 1931. The Group was a pioneering attempt to create a theatre collective, a company of players trained in a unified style and dedicated to presenting contemporary plays. Members of the group tended to hold left-wing political views and wanted to produce plays that dealt with important social issues. In 1932 Strand was asked by the Mexican government to run the department of film and photography at the Museum of Fine Arts. In 1935 Strand visited the Soviet Union with Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford where he met the radical film director, Sergi Eisenstein. When Strand returned to the United States he began to produce socially significant documentary films. This included The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936), his film on trade unions in the Deep South, People of the Cumberlands (1937) and Native Land (1942). In 1936 Strand joined with Berenice Abbot to establish the Photo League in New York. in 1936. Its initial purpose was to provide the radical press with photographs of trade union activities and political protests. Later the group decided to organize local projects where members concentrated on photographing working class communities. The Museum of Modern Art in New York held a full-scale retrospective of Strand's work in 1945. The Photo League, like many radical organizations, was investigated by the House of Un-American Activities Committee during the late 1940s. This led to members being blacklisted and Strand decided to leave the United States and live in France. Strand published a series of books including Time in New England (1950), France in Profile (1952), Un Paese (1954), Mexican Portfolio (1967), Outer Hebrides (1968) and Ghana: An African Portrait (1976). Paul Strand died on 31st March, 1976. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAPstrand.htm
Photographer Paul Strand defines the art of photography as a "means of intellectual and spiritual enrichment." Writer Susan Sontag describes photographs as "clouds of fantasy and pellets of information."
‘Paul Strand: Photography and Film for the 20th Century’ retrospective opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Photographs of South Uist and its people in the 1950s goes on display at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.
Maker: Paul Strand (1890-1976) Born: USA Active: USA Medium: photogravure Size: 6.25 x 6.75 in Location: USA Object No. 2016.1106 Shelf: C-55 Publication: Camera Work 49/50, 1917 Camera Work, The Complete Illustrations 1903-1917, Taschen, 1997 pg 770 Camera Work, A Pictorial Guide, Dover, 1978, pg 138 Maria Morris Hambourg, Paul Strand, Circa 1916, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Harry Abrams, New York, 1908 pl 41 Other Collections: Provenance: Rare Books, Autographs & Photographs, Doyle New York, November 22, 2016, Lot 489 Notes: TBAL To view our archive organized by themes and subjects, visit: OUR COLLECTIONS
