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
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.
people done faces
I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them.
photography people profound
Your photography is a record of your living - for anyone who really sees. You may see and be affected by other people's ways, you may even use them to find your own, but you will have eventually to free yourself of them. That is what Nietzche meant when he said, 'I have just read Schopenhauer, now I have to get rid of him.' He knew how insidious other people's ways could be, particularly those which have the forcefulness of profound experience, if you let them get between you and your own personal vision.
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.
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 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.