PHILADELPHIA — No small part of the very large achievement of Paul Strand (1890-1976 ... if he’d been put there by plumb line. No one noticed, but Strand did — or, even harder to pull ...

“Wall Street” (1915) is just one of many images in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Paul Strand retrospective ... the geometry of backyard washing lines, the shadows of railroad bridges ...

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 ...