![]() Excited by Strand's innovative work, Stieglitz exhibited his pictures at "291" in 1916 and featured them in the final two issues of Camera Work (October 1916 June 1917). He experimented with abstraction and movement and candid portraiture of people on the street. In the fall of 1911 Strand established himself as a freelance commercial photographer in New York and two years later began visiting the exhibitions of modern art at Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession galleries.Ä«etween 1914-17, stimulated by his contact with Stieglitz and avant-garde American and European art, Strand abandoned pictorialism for images that expressed an interest in formal concerns and the dynamism of contemporary urban life. In 1908 he joined the Camera Club of New York and three years later traveled through Europe, making softly focused, manipulated photographs in the popular pictorial style. ![]() While a student at the Ethical Culture School in New York, Strand studied photography with Lewis Hine (1907-8). ![]() ![]() Paul Strand (born in New York City) was an influential advocate of the straight approach in creative photography. ![]()
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