PHOTOGRAPHER

Paul Strand

1890 - 1976

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Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 – March 31, 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. In 1936, he helped found the Photo League, a cooperative of photographers who banded together around a range of common social and creative causes. His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe, and Africa. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Strand is the 52nd most popular photographer (down from 43rd in 2019), the 3,844th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,929th in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Photographer.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Paul Strand ranks 52 out of 148. Before him are Daidō Moriyama, Inge Morath, Gisèle Freund, Edward Weston, Claude Cahun, and Jacques Henri Lartigue. After him are Josef Sudek, Gustav Klutsis, Cecil Beaton, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, Sean Flynn, and Wilson Bentley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Paul Strand ranks 115. Before him are Clarence Brown, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, Yitzhak Sadeh, Phetsarath Ratanavongsa, Erwin Jaenecke, and Jüri Uluots. After him are Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Michał Rola-Żymierski, Jelly Roll Morton, Mustafa Shokay, André-Louis Danjon, and Adolf Wagner. Among people deceased in 1976, Paul Strand ranks 101. Before him are Freddie King, Howlin' Wolf, Mikhail Katukov, Silvana Armenulić, Paul Douglas, and Grégoire Kayibanda. After him are Josef Sudek, Bobby Pearce, Marguerite Laugier, Oscar Bonavena, Richard Hughes, and Werner March.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Strand ranks 3,844 out of 20,380. Before him are Meg Foster (1948), Richard Anderson (1926), Arielle Dombasle (1953), M. Emmet Walsh (1935), Lenny Montana (1926), and Margaret Fuller (1810). After him are Ellen Pompeo (1969), Jeff Porcaro (1954), John Milius (1944), William P. Clark Jr. (1931), Daniel Inouye (1924), and Sheryl Crow (1962).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In United States

Among photographers born in United States, Paul Strand ranks 14. Before him are Nan Goldin (1953), William Klein (1928), Robert Mapplethorpe (1946), Berenice Abbott (1898), Lewis Hine (1874), and Edward Weston (1886). After him are Sean Flynn (1941), Wilson Bentley (1865), Herb Ritts (1952), Gertrude Käsebier (1852), Imogen Cunningham (1883), and William P. Gottlieb (1917).

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