Editing Paul Strand (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Paul Strand (American - Portrait - New York - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait, Washington Square Park'' (1917)]]
Strand married the painter [[Rebecca Salsbury James|Rebecca Salsbury]] on January 21, 1922.<ref>New York, New York, Marriage Index 1866-1937</ref> He photographed her frequently, sometimes in unusually intimate, closely cropped compositions. Following their divorce in 1933, Strand met Virginia Stevens and married her in 1936. They divorced in 1950. He married Hazel Kingsbury in 1951 and they remained married until his death in 1976."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Buselle, Rebecca and Wilner-Stack, Trudy|title=Paul Strand: Southwest|date=2005|publisher=Aperture|ISBN=9781931788465|edition=1st|location=New York}}</ref>

The timing of Strand's departure to France is coincident with the first libel trial of his friend [[Alger Hiss]], with whom he maintained a correspondence until his death. Although he was never officially a member of the [[Communist Party USA|Communist Party]], many of Strand's collaborators were either Party members (James Aldridge; [[Cesare Zavattini]]) or prominent left-leaning writers and activists ([[Basil Davidson]]). Many of his friends were also Communists or suspected of being so ([[Member of Parliament]] [[D. N. Pritt]]; film director [[Joseph Losey]]; Scottish poet [[Hugh MacDiarmid]]; actor [[Alex McCrindle]]). Strand was also closely involved with Frontier Films, one of more than 20 organizations that were identified as "subversive" and "un-American" by the US Attorney General. When he was asked by an interviewer why he decided to go to France, Strand began by noting that in America, at the time of his departure, "McCarthyism was becoming rife and poisoning the minds of an awful lot of people."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Adams, Robert, 1937-|title=Why people photograph : selected essays and reviews|date=1994|publisher=Aperture|isbn=0-89381-597-7|edition=1st|location=New York|oclc=31404331}}, page 86</ref>

During the 1950s, and owing to a printing process that was reportedly only available in that country at the time, Strand insisted that his books be printed in [[Leipzig]], [[East Germany]], even if it meant they were initially banned in the American market on account of their Communist provenance.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.frasermacdonald.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/MacDonald-F-Hist-Photog-2004.pdf|title = Paul Strand and the Atlanticist Cold War}}</ref>
Following Strand's move to Europe, it was later revealed in de-classified intelligence files, obtained under the [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|Freedom of Information Act]] and now preserved at the Center for Creative Photography at the [[University of Arizona]], that he was closely monitored by security services.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/paul-strand-master-of-photography-review|title = Paul Strand: Master of Modern Photography}}</ref>