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閱讀筆記2：認識他們---世界名攝影師﹝二﹞

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保羅‧斯特蘭德（Paul Strand）

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. His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres﹝類型樣式﹞ and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe and Africa.

Born in New York City to Bohemian parents, in his late teens Strand was a student of renowned documentary photographer Lewis Hine at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School . It was while on a fieldtrip in this class that Strand first visited the 291 art gallery – operated by Stieglitz and Edward Steichen– where exhibitions of work by forward-thinking modernist photographers and painters would move Strand to take his photographic hobby more seriously. Stieglitz would later promote Strand's work in the 291 gallery itself, in his photography publication Camera Work, and in his artwork in the Hieninglatzing studio. Some of this early work, like the well-known "Wall Street," experimented with formal abstractions (influencing, among others, Edward Hopper and his idiosyncratic urban vision). Other of Strand's works reflect his interest in using the camera as a tool for social reform. He was one of the founders of the Photo League, an association of photographers who advocated using their art to promote social and political causes.

”I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces; whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them.
I gravitate toward people like that”---Paul Strand

“Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees”---Paul Strand

愛德華‧偉斯頓 ﹝ Edward Weston﹞

Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958) was a 20th century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers…" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography."

Weston was born in Chicago and moved to California when he was 21. He knew he wanted to be a photographer from an early age, and initially his work was typical of the soft-focus pictorialism that was popular at the time. Within a few years, however, he abandoned that style and went on to be one of the foremost champions of highly detailed photographic images.

Over the course of his forty-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects, including landscapes, still lifes, nudes, portraits, genre scenes and even whimsical parodies. It is said that he developed a "quintessentially American, and specially Californian, approach to modern photography" because of his focus on the people and places of the American West.

In 1937 Weston was the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and over the next two years he produced nearly 1,400 negatives using his 8 X 10 view camera. Some of his most famous photographs were taken of the trees and rocks at Point Lobos, California, near where he lived for many years.

In 1947 Weston was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and he stopped photographing soon thereafter. He spent the remaining ten years of his life overseeing the printing of more than 1,000 of his most famous images.

邁納‧懷特(Minor White)

White, who co-founded Aperture magazine in 1952 along with seven other visionaries, had an impact on photography that extends far beyond the realm of this foundation. During his lifetime, White was a photographer, critic, poet, writer, editor, and educator.

Ellis (Eli) Reed

Ellis (Eli) Reed (born 1946) is an award-winning American photographer and photojournalist.. Reed was the first full-time black photographer employed by 馬格蘭通訊社Magnum Agency and the author of several books, including "Black In America". Several of the photographs from that project have been recognized in juried shows and exhibitions.

Reed is a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University (1982-1983) and is currently the clinical professor of photojournalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1982. Reed is an Olympus Visionary as well as a recipient of the World Press Award and Overseas Press Club Award .

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