Paul Strand
Paul Strand
Paul Strandwas an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe, and Africa...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth16 October 1890
CountryUnited States of America
american-photographer art far feet few found lives
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
bit boys competing course format good guys leg nice struggled third
This is a nice format because we get 10 guys competing on one of the area's most challenging courses. The boys struggled a bit today, but it was good to get on this course before we come back for the third leg of the conference.
photography mean people
Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photography, and if you know how to use it, you will want to photograph that meaningness. If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.
photography honesty expression
The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely here that honesty no less than intensity of vision is the pre-requisite of a living expression. The fullest realization of this is accomplished without tricks of process or manipulation, through the use of straight photographic methods.
world photographer
To be a photographer you must have something to say about the world.
photography thinking self
Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.
light available
All light is available light.
photography moving goal
Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.
light space tree
The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be true to them. If he includes in his space a strip of grass, it must be felt as the living differentiated thing it is and so recorded. It must take its proper but no less important place as a shape and a texture in relationship to the mountain tree or what not, which are included.
real records world
The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise effective ways of organizing and using the material. For content and form are interrelated. The problems presented by content and form must be so developed that the result is fundimentally [sic] true to the realities of life as we know it. The chief problem is to find a form that adequately represents the reality.
photography expression vision
Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)
want dollars print
If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.
photography law kitchen
I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws of photography... you have produced something that is dead. (1923)
artist world endure
The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends to become universal and enduring because it comes out of something very particular.