THE DAILY PIC: This is Overlooking Harbor, New York, one of the lynchpin pictures in “Paul Strand ... off by its combination of pictorialist soft-focus and modernist rigor, as though the ...

Born in New York City in 1890, Paul Strand studied under Lewis Hine and ... styles over the course of his career, moving between soft-focus Pictorialism and sharp, direct realism.

The accompanying colophon states that Richard Benson printed the image under the supervision of Paul Strand. The colophon also is annotated ... became prevalent in the 1930's as a reaction against the ...

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 ...

From Alfred Stieglitz’s nude studies of Georgia O’Keeffe to Edward Steichen’s iconic portraits of New York’s Flatiron Building and Paul Strand ... in “sharp focus, with no retouching.” ...

In 1954, the American photographer Paul Strand went to South Uist in the Outer ... these quizzical and bemused observers. They tend to focus on the street life and social rituals of a fast ...