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    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…

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    Arno Rafael Minkkinen Profile Arno Rafael Minkkinen is a Finnish-American photographer. He was born in Finland, Helski in the year 1945 and thereafter migrated to the United States in the year 1951. He is a graduate of Wagner College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. Minkkinen started taking self-portraits in 1971 as he worked as an advertising copywriter on Madison Avenue in New York. In 1974 he earned his Master of Fine Arts degree when studying with Harry Callahan…

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    Howard Nemerov was born into a wealthy family on March 1, 1920. Due to his parent’s fortune, he was able to receive excellent education in exclusive private schools such as Fieldston Preparatory School. Later in his educational journey, Nemerov attended Harvard University. While Nemerov attended the prestigious university, he started writing his poems. When he was sixty-eight years old, Nemerov was named the United States poet laureate from 1988 to 1990. One of the factors that enabled him to…

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    science. He was born on April 22, 1904 in New York City, New York. The Oppenheimers were Ashkenazi Jews. In his childhood, J. Robert Oppenheimer moved to Manhattan. Early on, Oppenheimer attended Alcuin Preparatory School. However, in 1911, he switched and began attending the Ethical Culture Fieldston School. His family was a part of the Ethical Culture Society. The Ethical Culture Society was an outgrowth of American Reform Judaism. It emphasized social justice, civic responsibility, and…

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    Diane Arbus Analysis

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    captured light has given me a deeper appreciation for photography as an art-form. Comprehension of Arbus’s work hinges upon an understanding of her inspirations and history. Diane was born in March of 1923 to the family of David Nemerov, who owned and operated a fur emporium which serviced New York’s urban elite. Her childhood was spent attending the Ethical Culture School, where the curriculum focused on “moral education, psychological development . . . and the integration of ‘manual arts’…

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