Paul Strand
Paul Strand
Paul Strandwas an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe, and Africa...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth16 October 1890
CountryUnited States of America
art feet world
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
people vision world
If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.
mean people way
The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence of that person photographed to other people in such a way that they don't have to know that person personally, but that they are still confronted with a human being that they won't forget. That's a portrait.
photography humanness-is people
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
photography records photographer
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.
real records world
The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise effective ways of organizing and using the material. For content and form are interrelated. The problems presented by content and form must be so developed that the result is fundimentally [sic] true to the realities of life as we know it. The chief problem is to find a form that adequately represents the reality.
light space tree
The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be true to them. If he includes in his space a strip of grass, it must be felt as the living differentiated thing it is and so recorded. It must take its proper but no less important place as a shape and a texture in relationship to the mountain tree or what not, which are included.
thinking discovery long
I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.
light available
All light is available light.