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Paul Strand
1890 Stati Uniti - 1976 Francia
Portrait of Paul Strand with a pipe, circa 1917. Possible photograph by Alfred Stieglitz or Karl Struss (Public Domain).
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Introduction
Paul Strand stands as an auteur whose visual investigation forged the definitive division between nineteenth-century Pictorialism and rigorous Modernism. His oeuvre operates as a monumental bridge between two seemingly antithetical philosophies: pure aesthetic formalism, which explores geometric abstraction and light, and social documentary, deeply rooted in a humanist and Marxist ethic.
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