Paul Strand (1890-1976)• In high school he studied at the Ethical Cultural School under Lewis Hine.• Stieglitz became his mentor after Hine took them on a trip to 291, Stieglitz’s Gallery.• Stieglitz was initially hard on Strand because he saw Strand’s potential as a young

photographer; he eventually gave Strand his first solo exhibition.• Strand helped to promote photography as art. He followed in the Photo-Secession

movement. This movement, also referred to as Pictorialism, focused on making photos look like other art forms, such as drawings and paintings.

• His “principal themes: movement in the city, abstractions, and street portraits.” (http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pstd/hd_pstd.htm).

• His abstractions were inspired by the modern art movement, Cubism.• There was a pull for him between humanity and passion vs. the camera’s objectivity as

a machine.• Photographs relationship to time and place were evident in his later work; these were

turned into books.• Strand came to believe that a photograph shouldn’t just be about an artist’s emotions

(contrary to Stielglitz’s opinion and especially his series called Equivalents). They parted ways.

Alfred Stieglitz at Lake Georgetaken byPaul Strand, American, 1890 - 1976

Large-format camera with film holder being inserted in front of ground-glass viewing screen.

Platinum Process:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DFZ3wfft44

Gelatin Silver Process:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSBFrPWPS80

Photo Gravure:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIlC3vrPcIQ“Photogravure is an intaglio printmaking or photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is coated with a light-sensitive gelatin tissue which had been exposed to a film positive, and then etched, resulting in a high quality intaglio print that can reproduce the detail and continuous tones of a photograph.”

Go tohttp://www.philamuseum.org/collections/search.htmlAnd search collection for Paul Strand or other photographers

To see an artist working in the darkroom, view the beginning of this video:http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/sally-mann