Quote: Paul Strand

Paul Strand speaking about his photographs taken in Mexico.

"I began to find that the shibboleths of time were not true for me. It was always said that you really have to know a place before you start working in it; otherwise you would do something very superficial. Another shibboleth was that you can't make a portrait of a person unless you know that person, and then when you you know the person you create the moment or wait for the moment when they are most alive and most themselves. These shibboleths went out the window."