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Paul Strand
On October 16, 1890, a boy was born in New York City to a family of Bohemian immigrants. The world did not yet know that this boy would grow up to be Paul Strand, a world-renowned photographer, known best for his early abstractions.
Strand was given his first camera by his father when he was twelve years old, and at fourteen attended school at the Ethical Culture School. He was taught by documentary photographer Lewis Hine, who was working on a project involving taking photos of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island. Strand soon decided to join Hine's ventures and he was taken to the Photo-Secession Gallery on Fifth Avenue where he first encountered the works of Alfred Stieglitz, David Octavius Hill, Clarence White, and several others. This experience led him to take his photography more seriously and, he hoped, change the world.
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