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{{Short description|American photographer (1890β1976)}} {{for|the baseball player|Paul Strand (baseball)}} {{Infobox artist | name = Paul Strand | image = Paul Strand by Alfred Stieglitz 1917.jpg | caption = Paul Strand in a photograph by [[Alfred Stieglitz]] (1917) | birth_name = Nathaniel Paul Stransky | birth_date = {{Birth date |1890|10|16}} | birth_place = [[Brooklyn, New York]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age |1976|3|31|1890|10|16}} | death_place = [[Orgeval, Yvelines]], France | nationality = [[United States|American]] | field = [[Photography]], [[filmmaking]] | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = }} '''Paul Strand''' (October 16, 1890 β 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.<ref>{{cite web|last1=AnOther|access-date=2022-01-11|title=How Paul Strand Paved the Way For Photographic Modernism|url=https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/8482/how-paul-strand-paved-the-way-for-photographic-modernism|date=15 March 2016|website=AnOther}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first1=Francesco|last1=Dama|access-date=2022-01-11|title=An Intimate Encounter with Paul Strand's Photographic Journeys|url=http://hyperallergic.com/295439/an-intimate-encounter-with-paul-strands-photographic-journeys/|date=28 June 2016|website=Hyperallergic}}</ref> 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.
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