LTA PART 2
Paul Strand
The following paper was written in part by Gwen Ifill and Luke
Note, the following paper contains adult content that is not recommended for toddlers. Please use viewer discretion before reading this paper.
This is the very awesome and delightful paper on Paul Strand. If you are reading
this paper and wondering who the heck Paul Strand is, I am about to explain it right
now! Paul Strand was a photographer who was around from the late 1800s to the
1970s. Specifically, he was born on October 16, 1890 in Manhattan, NY (New York City) during the time Benjamin Harrison was president of the USA. He was known for his photography, but nobody knew that he made films as well. Part of his early life was, obviously, he was born October 16, 1890. His parents were of the Bohemian nationality. During his teenage years, he was a student of renowned documentary photographer Lewis Hine at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School. While he was attending that school, his class took a field trip to the 291 art gallery, which was operated by Stieglitz and Edward Steichen. The 291 art gallery would be where exhibitions of work by optimist photographers and painters who are also modernists would move Strand to take his photographic hobby more seriously. Stieglitz later promoted Strand’s work to the museum itself, photography publication Camera Work and artwork in Hieninglatzing studio. Examples of photography http://www.clippingdesign.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Paul-Strand-Photography.jpg Blind, taken in 1917 Young Man, taken in 1951 Paul Strand Wall Street, taken in 1915 The very first film he ever made was called “Manhatta” meaning “New York the Magnificent”, which he made after serving in World War 1. He made the film based off a collaboration between him and Charles Sheeler. He worked his time with that as a freelance movie cameraman. While doing that, he still captured still shots, including the beauty of natural forms through dramatic close-ups in Colorado (1926) and Maine (1927–28). …show more content…
When he lived in Mexico from 1932-1935, he worked on the film Redes,
which was a film commissioned by the Mexican government, released in the US as The
Wave. In the 1930s, Strand became increasingly concerned with addressing social
issues, and so he switched his focus from photography to motion pictures (aka videos in
modern terms) as a means to reach a greater audience and to tell a clearer story. He
returned to the USA and worked as a cameraman for the director Pare Lorentz on the
government-sponsored documentary film The Plow That Broke the Plains, released in
1936. In 1937 Strand formed Frontier Films to make documentaries with social and
political content. Of the nonprofit company’s seven films, Strand photographed only
Native Land, made in 1942.
Shortly after returning from serving in World War 2, Strand became upset with
the situation with the US government and politics, and so he decided to move to France.
Upon doing that, he worked throughout Europe. He then shifted his focus over there to
community life issues. During the last years of his life, he started writing photography books, which he could use to copy that of the effects of film, by laying out a narrative sequence of images, often accompanied by text. His books from this period include Time in New England, released in 1950, with Nancy Newhall; La France de
Paul Strand
The following paper was written in part by Gwen Ifill and Luke
Note, the following paper contains adult content that is not recommended for toddlers. Please use viewer discretion before reading this paper.
This is the very awesome and delightful paper on Paul Strand. If you are reading
this paper and wondering who the heck Paul Strand is, I am about to explain it right
now! Paul Strand was a photographer who was around from the late 1800s to the
1970s. Specifically, he was born on October 16, 1890 in Manhattan, NY (New York City) during the time Benjamin Harrison was president of the USA. He was known for his photography, but nobody knew that he made films as well. Part of his early life was, obviously, he was born October 16, 1890. His parents were of the Bohemian nationality. During his teenage years, he was a student of renowned documentary photographer Lewis Hine at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School. While he was attending that school, his class took a field trip to the 291 art gallery, which was operated by Stieglitz and Edward Steichen. The 291 art gallery would be where exhibitions of work by optimist photographers and painters who are also modernists would move Strand to take his photographic hobby more seriously. Stieglitz later promoted Strand’s work to the museum itself, photography publication Camera Work and artwork in Hieninglatzing studio. Examples of photography http://www.clippingdesign.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Paul-Strand-Photography.jpg Blind, taken in 1917 Young Man, taken in 1951 Paul Strand Wall Street, taken in 1915 The very first film he ever made was called “Manhatta” meaning “New York the Magnificent”, which he made after serving in World War 1. He made the film based off a collaboration between him and Charles Sheeler. He worked his time with that as a freelance movie cameraman. While doing that, he still captured still shots, including the beauty of natural forms through dramatic close-ups in Colorado (1926) and Maine (1927–28). …show more content…
When he lived in Mexico from 1932-1935, he worked on the film Redes,
which was a film commissioned by the Mexican government, released in the US as The
Wave. In the 1930s, Strand became increasingly concerned with addressing social
issues, and so he switched his focus from photography to motion pictures (aka videos in
modern terms) as a means to reach a greater audience and to tell a clearer story. He
returned to the USA and worked as a cameraman for the director Pare Lorentz on the
government-sponsored documentary film The Plow That Broke the Plains, released in
1936. In 1937 Strand formed Frontier Films to make documentaries with social and
political content. Of the nonprofit company’s seven films, Strand photographed only
Native Land, made in 1942.
Shortly after returning from serving in World War 2, Strand became upset with
the situation with the US government and politics, and so he decided to move to France.
Upon doing that, he worked throughout Europe. He then shifted his focus over there to
community life issues. During the last years of his life, he started writing photography books, which he could use to copy that of the effects of film, by laying out a narrative sequence of images, often accompanied by text. His books from this period include Time in New England, released in 1950, with Nancy Newhall; La France de