Paul Strand

Key Figures

Paul Strand

1. 1936 Strand joined with Berenice Abbot to establish the Photo League in New York

2. Strand was the first photographer to achieve

a really decisive break with pictorialism and apply some of the lessons of the new modern art to photography.

3. Paul Strand was born in New York and attended the Ethical Culture School where his teacher was Lewis Hine.

4. Strands later work moved toward a documentary approach, attempting to encapsulate a feeling a place and its people in a body of work, published in book form. The most successful of these dealth with rural communities such as the Hebridean Islands or a village in the Italian South.

5. Strands work was published in the last two issues of Camera Work and the pictures marked a turning point for photography.

Laslo Moholy-Nagy

1. Teacher at the Bauhaus School in Germany.

2. Establishes the New Bauhaus at the Chicago Institute of Design.

3. Used straight photography and photomontage.

4. Disorienting Images.

5. Experimented with stage design and photography.

Man Ray

1. Surrealist

2. Made dreamlike images

3. His revolutionary nude studies, fashion work, and portraits opened a new chapter in the history of photography.

4. he was enthusiastically welcomed into Dadaist and Surrealist circles

5. Man Ray experimented tirelessly with new photographic techniques, multiple exposure, rayography, and solarization being some of his most famous.

John Heartfield

1. Original name Helmut Herzfeld

2. German Dadaist.

3. Pushed the idea of using massprinted source material by inventing the photomontage.

4. practice social criticism

5. Wasn't allowed to express himself in Germany during Hitler's time.

Aleksandr Rodchenko

1. Aimed to make the familiar strange.

2. Wanted to challenge or provoke the viewer.

3. Valued technology

4. Style : close ups, unusual vantage points, tilted his camera.

5. Was born in Russia.

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