Paul Strand Quotes

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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.

Paul Strand

Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.

Paul Strand

Paul Strand

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Born: October 16, 1890

Died: March 31, 1976 (aged 85)

Bio: Paul Strand was 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.

Known for:

Manhatta (1921)
Redes (1936)
Native Land (1942)
The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)

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