Remembering Paul Strand on his birthday 🎂
In the garden of his house in Orgeval, France
📷 Martine Franck, 1972
Paul Strand
Schoolboy, Charente, France, 1951
@HFJMuseum
"The great humanism that we find in Paul Strand's work is not just an intellectual concept, but something he has lived, struggled and suffered for all his life."
- Louis Stettner
Paul Strand was asked how he chose the things he photographed. "I don't," he replied. "They choose me. All my life, for example, I've been photographing windows & doors. Why? Because they fascinate me. Somehow they take on the character of human living."
Side Porch, Vermont, 1946
Paul Strand
Kitchen, Loch Eynort, South Uist, Hebrides, 1954
"He never has seen photography (no matter how great his respect for aesthetic craftsmanship) as separate from life and its social problems."
- Louis Stettner
Paul Strand
The White Fence, Port Kent, 1916
"The White Fence... a picture, I think, that has etched itself into the pictorial memory of every young photographer who ever saw it, except perhaps for the most insensitive."
- John Szarkowski
Paul Strand by Hermann Landshoff
New York, 1948 #Caturday
"As a young man working in the orbit of Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand defined modernist photography. Later on, it defined him."
- Karen Rosenberg
On Paul Strand's birthday, download the free PDF of Paul Strand Circa 1916, by Maria Morris Hambourg, 1988, from @metmuseum
metmuseum.org/art/metpublica…
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