Paul Strand
American photographer and filmmaker who helped establish photography as art.
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Strand died on March 31, 1976.[1] Along with Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, Paul Strand was a 20th-century American photographer and filmmaker who played a key role in establishing photography as a fine art.[1]
Life and work
Strand's father gave him a camera when he was twelve years old.[2] Strand married painter Rebecca Salsbury in 1922 and later married Virginia Stevens in 1936.[3][4] A class trip to the 291 gallery, run by Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, motivated Strand to pursue photography with greater seriousness.[5] Strand's early photograph Wall Street explored formal abstractions and had an impact on painter Edward Hopper's distinctive urban style.[5]
In 1921, Strand collaborated with painter/photographer Charles Sheeler to create his first film, Manhatta.[6]
What the cited sources add
AnOther magazine notes that Strand was given his first camera by his father at age twelve.[7] The same source states that Hine introduced Strand to Stieglitz at gallery 291.[7] AnOther reports that Strand made a living shooting sports events and action sequences for Hollywood movies for ten years.[7] The Guardian article on Manhatta describes it as placing lines from a Walt Whitman poem between images of New York City's architecture.[8]
The Hyperallergic review states that Stieglitz devoted the entire final issue of Camera Work to Strand's work in 1917.[9] The Guardian article on Luzzara recounts that Strand's collaborator Cesare Zavattini returned to the village in 1955 to give copies of Strand's book to everyone featured in it.[10] A review states that while in Mexico, Strand documented labor conditions for the government and created the film Redes in 1936.[9]
References
- Wikipedia, "Paul Strand" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: AnOther, "How Paul Strand Paved the Way For Photographic Modernism", AnOther, 15 March 2016; Dama, "An Intimate Encounter with Paul Strand's Photographic Journeys", Hyperallergic, 28 June 2016 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Paul Strand" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Philadelphia Museum of Art - Exhibitions - Paul Strand: Master of Modern Photography"; "Paul Strand" (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Paul Strand" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: New York, New York, Marriage Index 1866-1937 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Paul Strand" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Buselle, Rebecca and Wilner-Stack, Trudy, "Paul Strand: Southwest", Aperture, 2005 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Paul Strand" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Wells, Walter, Silent Theater: The Art of Edward Hopper, London/New York: Phaidon, 2007 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Paul Strand" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Symphonies of steel and stone: silent cinema and the city", The Guardian, 21 March 2016 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- AnOther, "How Paul Strand Paved the Way For Photographic Modernism", AnOther, 15 March 2016. facts only, no text reused. anothermag.com
- "Symphonies of steel and stone: silent cinema and the city", The Guardian, 21 March 2016. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
- Dama, "An Intimate Encounter with Paul Strand's Photographic Journeys", Hyperallergic, 28 June 2016. facts only, no text reused. hyperallergic.com
- "I posed for Paul Strand: the day the great photographer walked into my village in Italy", The Guardian, 16 March 2016. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
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