Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Paul Strand
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)