Paul stand is an american photographer and filmmaker, He focused on modernism and straight photography.

Qoutes:

” He recognized that the camera held a patent advantage over other plastic arts in that it could freeze a moment in time and space in a way that was impossible to replicate by hand or in real time.”(Duncan,2019)

 art should be able to engage the spectator spiritually and socially. He is thus associated with the idea that high art can (should indeed) accommodate abstraction and realism simultaneously(Duncan, 2019)

Image Analysis:

Visual:

In this image you can see a desolate woman in the centre, with a placard which says Blind. There is also a badge above the sign, that shows you that she is a licensed newspaper Vendor.

Conceptual/Contextual:

• The image was first produced and published in Camera Work.
• Was taken in 5 Five Points.
• Strand wanted to focus on Social problems. this was evident because the image was taken “the heart of the immigrant slums on the Lower East Side of Manhattan”(Duncan, 2019)

Technical:

This image has been taken in black and white, Medium close shot.

“achieve portraits of such arresting quality Strand devised a strategy whereby he rigged his camera with a false lens that pointed forward, while the working lens was actually placed at a ninety-degree angle and hidden from the subject’s view under his arm.”(Duncan, 2019)

Bibliography:

Duncan, A. (2019). Paul Strand Photography, Bio, Ideas. [online] The Art Story. Available at: https://www.theartstory.org/artist/strand-paul/ [Accessed 16 Dec. 2019].