Blog Entry No 19Tutor: Ms. Scicluna
Date Uploaded: 11/2/2016
- Strand had a long and constructive career with the camera. He had studied pictorialist examples in the 1910's, which then had been introduced by photography in the 1920's.
- Creating and developing projects with Charles Sheeler, Strand had learned more in expressing the movement of the city in a film (Manhatta).
- By the 1930's Strand had got interested in documentary film and had begun committing himself to creating photographic books of the highest quality.
- As the 1950's progressed, then Strand had moved to France.
- Concentrated on Landscape, Architecture and Portraiture, which had continued to inspire him in applying his subjects in every material of photographic print.
- Strand was inspired from Alfred Stieglitz's Little Galleries of Photo-Secession.
- implementing the style of Edward Steichen and Clarence White in his work.
- 1915 - Stieglitz had discussed that the graphic softness of Strand's photographs to change the method and had improved within two years.
- Using three principal themes - Movement in the city - abstractions - street portraits.
- Strand's visualisation of these aspects had taken them in a structured and composed way, by planning his shots before hand the capture, also using slow movements as to begin with.
- Then strand had upped the complexity of his compositions with various different rhythms of midtown to downtown crowds.
- Strand also had experimented in the way of the movement universe by trying out various techniques on everyday objects, which resulted in the first significant abstractions that were intentionally made with the camera.
References
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Paul Strand (1890 - 1976). http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pstd/hd_pstd.htm (Accessed on 11th February 2016)
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