“I wanted to see if I could photograph people without their being aware of the camera,” the photographer Paul Strand told Milton Brown in a 1971 interview. On June 3, Madrid’s Fundación Mapfre will ...
A new book presents captivating images of New Mexico in the early 1930s by photographer Paul Strand Modernist New York photographer Paul Strand [1890-1976] traveled frequently throughout his legendary ...
Paul Strand made his best-known photograph in 1917. Using a camera equipped with a hidden lens that allowed him to photograph people he passed in the street without them knowing it, the 26-year-old ...
LONDON — It’s always surprising when important artists get overlooked. That’s the case with Paul Strand in the UK, whose contribution to the history of photography might still slip away from the ...
PHILADELPHIA — No small part of the very large achievement of Paul Strand (1890-1976) is how clearly his work disproved the assumption that photography was inherently inferior to painting. That ...
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A major retrospective of the influential American photographer Paul Strand is being held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the first time his work has been seen on this scale in the UK for ...
Rare prints made by the American photographer Paul Strand from his photographic essay in the Hebrides in the 1950s have been acquired by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, each ‘a triumph of ...
GalleryDriven out by the rise of McCarthyism in the United States, the American photographer crossed the ocean to record the memory of Europe's rural communities, adopting a documentary approach. His ...
After helping to define modernism with his shots of New York, Paul Strand went to Italy to make political work about everyday people. Now 73, Angela Secchi shares her memories of when he came to ...
FotoFocus is proud to announce Big Tent, the inaugural exhibition at its newly built FotoFocus Center, a 14,700 square foot venue designed specifically to host photographic exhibitions and year-round ...