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.

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 ...

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 ...

Paul Strand is considered a master of modern photography with a career that spanned over 6 decades. His prints are a cornerstone of the Art Museum's collection, his work a critical influence on ...

It is always on his doorstep.” So said American photographer and filmmaker Paul Strand, who practiced what he preached. He began photographing in New York in 1910 and ended his career in France ...

“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 ...

Paul Strand helped launch modern photography in America with an Ensign reflex camera and a vision of revealing the interconnectedness of all things through the ”absolute unqualified objectivity ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...