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
lying care portraits
It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger.
artist discovery effectiveness
It has always been my belief that the true artist, like the true scientist, is a researcher using materials and techniques to dig into the truth and meaning of the world in which he himself lives; and what he creates, or better perhaps, brings back, are the objective results of his explorations. The measure of his talent--of his genius, if you will--is the richness he finds in such a life's voyage of discovery and the effectiveness with which he is able to embody it through his chosen medium.
photography important world
The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world.
matter lenses use
No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you can see.
art feet world
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.
people vision world
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.
mean people way
The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence of that person photographed to other people in such a way that they don't have to know that person personally, but that they are still confronted with a human being that they won't forget. That's a portrait.
photography humanness-is people
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
photography records photographer
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.