1852–1934 · United States · Photographer
Gertrude Kasebier
Soft-focus Pictorialist portraits of mothers, children and sitters at rest.
The Manger, 1899Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1890–1976 · UNITED STATES
Paul Strand
Hard-edged modernism and quiet portraits of rural communities.
- Born
- 1890
- Died
- 1976
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1915Wall Street
- 1950Time in New England
- 1962Tir a'Mhurain
WHY THEY MATTER
Helped establish photography as a modern art form alongside Stieglitz and Weston; co-founded the Photo League; the Metropolitan Museum of Art published a study of his 1916 work.
THE LIFE
Strand was an American photographer and filmmaker who, with Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped win acceptance for photography as an art. In 1936 he helped found the Photo League, a cooperative of socially minded photographers. His work spans six decades and many places, from New England to the Outer Hebrides, Egypt and Ghana. He published a series of books on rural communities later in life.
Also born in 1850–1899
1857–1927 · France · Photographer
Eugene Atget
Patient, empty-street records of old Paris before modernisation.
Avenue des Gobelins, 1927Source: Wikipedia
1864–1946 · United States · Photographer
Alfred Stieglitz
From Pictorialism to sharp modernism, with a deep belief in photography as art.
The Steerage, 1907Source: Wikipedia
1874–1940 · United States · Photographer
Lewis Hine
Direct, dignified portraits of working children and labourers.
Young Doffers in the Elk Cotton Mills, 1910Source: Wikipedia
1876–1964 · Germany · Photographer
August Sander
Typological portraits of every class and trade, frontal and calm.
Face of Our Time (Antlitz der Zeit), 1929Source: Wikipedia
1879–1973 · United States · Photographer
Edward Steichen
Painterly early work, then glossy modern fashion and celebrity portraits.
The Flatiron, 1904Source: Wikipedia