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.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Rare 1950s photographs taken in the Outer Hebrides by legendary American photographer Paul Strand will be shown in the UK in the largest exhibition since his death. The collection of nine images ...

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 ...

How did an American photographer create such an extraordinary sense of shared intimacy with a French boy? Strand referred to his method as “a process of gradual absorption, of sympathetic perception.” ...

Alfred Stieglitz was the most famous photographer in America, and a forceful advocate for advanced art of all kinds, when a nervous 25-year-old Paul Strand brought his photographs to Stieglitz’s ...

Born in New York City in 1890, Paul Strand studied under Lewis Hine and Alfred Stieglitz, and when still a young man was already among the most innovative and influential photographers of his ...