His work's socially-committed character is revealed in a new exhibition. In 1950, photographer Paul Strand left the United States, frightened by the rise of McCarthyism and the harassment of ...

PHILADELPHIA — No small part of the very large achievement of Paul Strand (1890-1976) is how clearly his work disproved the assumption that photography was inherently inferior to painting.

Photographer, filmmaker, political activist, husband, enigma, collaborator, and pioneer: these are simply a handful of the words that could be used to describe Paul Strand (1870–1976). Together with ...

The photographer was, in fact, one of the most important of the 20th century, Paul Strand, and he was compiling a book about life in the Hebrides, called Tir A'Mhurain. "It means Land of Bent ...

“He was preoccupied with the question of how modern art — whether it’s photography or not — could contain all of the humanity that you see in the western artistic traditions.” Paul ...

That’s the case with Paul Strand in the UK, whose contribution to the history of photography might still slip away from the British public’s view. While Strand’s photographs were collected ...

The photographer Paul Strand was a great artist of the painstaking, politicised kind; he was no fleet-footed Surrealist, smitten by the beauty of a chance encounter between a sewing machine and an ...

The gallery’s charismatic founder, the photographer Alfred Stieglitz ... What’s striking, above all, is how quickly Paul Strand pictures began to look like Paul Strand pictures—and how ...

“I wanted to see if I could photograph people without their being aware of the camera,” the photographer Paul Strand told Milton Brown in a 1971 interview. On June 3, Madrid’s Fundación ...

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She painted flowers. Although Paul failed at being Alfred and Beck failed at being Georgia (so Burke implies), Strand eventually found his way as a photographer and filmmaker in Mexico and Italy ...