And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography you may be able to relate the two, create an object that has a life of its own, which transcends craftsmanship. That is a long road, and because it must be your own road nobody can teach it to you or find it for you. There are no shortcuts, no rules.
It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger. - Paul Strand
It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger.
- Paul Strand
I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them. - Paul Strand
I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them.
No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you ca… - Paul Strand
No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you ca…
If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photogra… - Paul Strand
If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photogra…
All good art is abstract in its structure. - Paul Strand
All good art is abstract in its structure.
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. - Paul Strand
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
All light is available light. - Paul Strand
All light is available light.
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness. - Paul Strand
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be… - Paul Strand
The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be…
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