We celebrate the remarkable life and creative legacy of photo and film pioneer Paul Strand ❤️
at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London – the first retrospective of the American artist's work in the UK for over 30 years – offering a rare chance to appreciate the full scope of Strand’s life work with over 200 objects on display.
Born in New York City to Czechoslovakian parents, Strand was given his first camera by his father at the age of twelve. However, he didn’t develop an interest in photography until later in high school, when he enrolled in a photography class taught by sociologist and photographer Lewis W. Hine. It was Hine who first introduced Strand to photographer and future mentor, Alfred Stieglitz at the latter's celebrated gallery 291.
By 1911, Strand had joined the Camera Club of New York, going on to develop a fascination with the image manipulation techniques of Pictorialism. It was at this time that he began to experiment with diffused light and soft-focus lenses in an attempt to stress the aesthetic properties of photography and make his images look like paintings.
Having grown up in New York, Strand was naturally drawn to the dynamism of the city and its people. “I suddenly got the idea of making portraits of people the way you see them in New York parks – sitting around, not posing, not conscious of being photographed,” he stated in a 1974 interview. Driven to document his city with complete photographic objectivity, he created a means of shooting his subjects candidly.
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