Paul Strand y las paradojas de la modernidad americana

Abstract

Paul Strand’s contributions to the film world are very closely related to his photography work from each era, and even more to a world vision that, despite its different emphases, has many points in common. While in Manhatta (1920) Strand (along with Sheeler) offers a synthesis of nature and modernity, in Redes (1934) it is the experience of Mexican mural art and the influence of Eisenstein (on his way through Mexico) that determine his efforts to build a workingman’s epic. But without a doubt, Strand’s most ambitious project (at the head of the production company Frontier Films) was Native Land (1942), the film that took on the demands of the American Popular Front and engraved them in the words of the founding fathers of the American homeland.