Strand, Paul, 1890–1976, American photographer, b. New York City. Strand studied under Lewis Hine Hine, Lewis (Lewis Wickes Hine), 1874–1940, American photographer, b. Oshkosh, Wis. Hine dedicated much of his photographic career, which began shortly after he bought his first camera in 1903, to exposing in sharp, painful images the social evils of the
..... Click the link for more information. , who introduced him to Alfred Stieglitz Stieglitz, Alfred (stēg`lĭts), 1864–1946, American photographer, editor, and art exhibitor, b. Hoboken, N.J.
..... Click the link for more information. . At Stieglitz's famed "291" gallery, Strand had his first one-man exhibition (1916); the last two issues of Stieglitz's Camera Work (1917) were devoted to Strand's photography. His principal early subjects were Manhattan life and 20th-century machinery. In the 1920s he made his exquisitely composed landscape and nature photographs. Strand made documentary films in Mexico, the USSR, and the United States. His superb portraits of regions are reproduced in Time in New England (1950), Un Paese (1954), Tir A'Mhurain (1968, on the Hebrides), and Living Egypt (1969).

Bibliography

See his Retrospective Monograph (2 vol., 1972).

Strand, Paul

White Fence, photograph by Paul Strand, 1916.

(credit: Courtesy of Paul Strand)

(born Oct. 16, 1890, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died March 31, 1976, Oregeval, France) U.S. photographer. He studied photography with Lewis Hine. At Hine's urging, he frequented Alfred Stieglitz's “291” gallery; the avant-garde paintings by Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, and Georges Braque that he saw there led him to emphasize abstract form and pattern in his photographs, such as Wall Street (1915). He rejected soft-focus Pictorialism in favour of the minute detail and rich tonal range afforded by the use of large-format cameras. Much of his later work was devoted to North American and European scenes and landscapes. He collaborated on documentary films with Charles Sheeler and Pare Lorentz.

Strand, Paul (1890–1976) photographer; born in New York City. Originally a portrait photographer (1912–22) whose work was exhibited by Stieglitz, he began photographing machines, rocks, and plants to capture their abstract shapes and forms. In 1921 he filmed Manhatta, an abstract tribute to Manhattan. President of Frontier films (1937–42), he made leftist documentaries including The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936). He moved to Orgeval, France, in 1951 to escape McCarthyism.