Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.
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…
- 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
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.
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.
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…
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 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.
All good art is abstract in its structure. - Paul Strand
All good art is abstract in its structure.
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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