Symbol of the People’s Party, Dwinyama, Ghana Photograph by Paul Strand, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Promised gift of Marjorie and Jeffrey Honickman Strand pursued these “place portraits ...

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 ...

Born in New York City in 1890, Paul Strand studied under Lewis Hine and ... allowing for stealth portraits of unguarded subjects. The resulting photos captured honest slices of the angst and ...

Paul Strand helped launch modern photography in ... His abstracts, street scenes, still lifes, portraits and landscapes represent some of the earliest masterpieces of what would become known ...

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 ...

And that's what this exhibit, "Paul Strand: Master of Modern ... a piece of his life is on view. Strand's cameras, along with portraits of him with his cameras closes the exhibit.

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 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 ...

“I wanted to see if I could photograph people without their being aware of the camera,” the photographer Paul Strand told Milton Brown in a 1971 interview. On June 3, Madrid’s Fundación ...

Strand (1890-1976) -- born Paul Stransky in New York -- made a photograph whose format echoes that of his famous picture of the blind woman. “M. Pelletier, Gondeville, Charente” is a portrait ...

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 ...