Photographer and Filmmaker of 20th century PAUL STRAND Photographer and Filmmaker of 20th century

Photography type (Street, Landscape & Portrait)

Biography Born on October 16, 1890, New York city, New York, U.S. He began taking photography courses when he was 16 years old. He studied under Lewis Hine who was a famous photographer. He graduated high school from Ethical Culture School in 1911. After graduation two years later he became a self-employed commercial photographer. During the First World War Strand was a member of the Army Medical Corps. After the war, Strand collaborated with Charles Scheeler on the documentary film, Mannahatta (1925).

Biography Strand became active in politics in 1931. In 1932 Strand was asked by the Mexican government to run the department of film and photography at the Museum of Fine Arts. Strand published a series of books including Time in New England (1950), France in profile (1952), Un Paese (1954), Mexican Portfolio (1967), Outer Hebrides (1968) and Ghana: An African Portrait (1976). Paul Strand died on March 31, 1976, Oregeval, France.

PAUL STRAND Wall Street, New York City, 1915 Robert Klein Gallery

PAUL STRAND Venice, 1911 Robert Klein Gallery

PAUL STRAND House, Dark Hill and Mesquite, Taos, 1930, 1930 James Hyman Gallery

PAUL STRAND Church, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, 1932 Aperture Foundation $450

PAUL STRAND Young Boy, Gondeville, Charente, France, 1951 Aperture Foundation $1,800

PAUL STRAND Shop Window, West River Valley, Vermont, 1946 Gerald Peters Gallery

PAUL STRAND American House, Ghost Town, Colorado, 1931 Aperture Foundation $450

PAUL STRAND The Court, New York, 1924 Aperture Foundation

PAUL STRAND House, Benbecula, Hebrides, 1954 Aperture Foundation

PAUL STRAND Rebecca, New York, 1920 Saint Louis Art Museum

Emulations

Emulations

Technique and Methods In 1911, on his European trip, Strand used an Adams Idento with an Identoscope as a hand camera to produce 3¼ x 4¼ glass negatives. The contact positives were enlarged to 8 x 10 negatives and then prints made from these. Strand adopted two cameras, the 8 x 10 inch view camera (8 x 10" Korona view camera) and the 5 x 7 inch Graflex (4 x 5"? and 5 x 7" Graflex cameras), and he used them "without variation or exemption from roughly 1920 to 1960’’. Strand always used a Graflex on a tripod to make instantaneous exposures. Strand began to work with a roll-film camera.

Technique and Methods of Printing Small format negatives/Platinum Prints. Medium format negatives/Platinum Prints. Medium format negatives/Gelatin Silver Prints. Paul’s favorite printing paper was silver paper for forty years.

References Paul Strand urban phtographer http://www.urban-photography-art.com/paul-strand.html Paul Strand biography http://famous-photographers.com/paul-strand/ "Paul Strand." Biography. Lee Gallery, 1 Jan. 1981. Web. 22 Apr. 2015. <http://www.leegallery.com/paul-strand/paul-strand-biography>.