That achievement is on magnificent display in “Paul Strand: Master of Modern Photography.” It runs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the exhibition’s only North American venue, through Jan. 4.

The term “photography” is derived from the Greek word and means light and writing. While early pin-hole cameras were documented in 5 B.C., it was the daguerreotype technique that ushered ...

Yet many may not be familiar with Paul Strand (1890-1976), a pioneer of 20th-century photography who began his career in New York but is now welcomed back to the City of Brotherly Love.

Strand’s work is so recognizable because of its profound influence on the art form, according to photographer Bruce Katsiff, former director of the Michener Art Museum. “Every photographer who was ...

Paul Strand is considered a master of modern photography with a career that spanned over 6 decades. His prints are a cornerstone of the Art Museum's collection, his work a critical influence on ...

Yet many may not be familiar with Paul Strand (1890-1976), a pioneer of 20th-century photography who began his career in New York but is now welcomed back to the City of Brotherly Love.

Photographer, filmmaker, political activist, husband, enigma, collaborator, and pioneer: these are simply a handful of the words that could be used to describe Paul Strand (1870–1976). Together with ...

Paul Strand: Master of Modern Photography – a first-rate scholarly retrospective by curators Peter Barberie and Amanda N. Bock – will travel to Europe, including a stay at London’s Victoria ...

This major retrospective presents the work of a critical figure in the history of modern art, photographer and filmmaker Paul Strand (American, 1890–1976), whose archive of nearly 4,000 prints stands ...

By choosing exile at the age of 60, Strand (1890-1976) distanced himself from his country of origin, but also from the films and experimental photography for which he is still remembered.

In 1949, the American modernist photographer Paul Strand described how, in the classic movie Bicycle Thieves, Vittorio De Sica conjured on film “the textures, sounds, movements and almost the ...

‘Paul Strand: Master of Modern Photography’ at the Philadelphia Museum of Art looks at a fastidious photographer whose work—emotional portraits, abstract still lifes, self-referential ...