Photographer of the Week 03: Strand

2 Commentsby   |  09.18.14  |  Photographer of the Week

Paul Strand

Versatile American photographer who helped establish photography as an art form. His works ranged from wide photographic genres such as street photography to portraiture. Paul Strand had a long and productive career with the camera. His pictorialist studies of the 1910s, followed by the coolly seductive machine photographs of the 1920s, like the contemporary work of Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped define the canon of early American modernism and set its premium on the elegant print.

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  1. Brenee Ewing
    11:01 pm, 09.21.14

    Although, I feel like this pick is very creepy and scary,it very symbolic looking. i feel like the women in the pick had it rough, and back in the 1900s the women didnt have to many rights. I also feel like it offends her with the sign on her chest.

  2. Jennie Magner
    12:58 pm, 09.23.14

    This is a beautiful shot. The contrast between the sign, lettering, and the woman’s cloak really brings the viewer into the shot, first seeing “blind” and then focusing on the face of the woman, and what the sign means. I think through this image, Strand makes a statement on how we as a society tend to label and ostracize people.

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