Recently I read a book about Paul Strand’s life and work published by Aperture (“Paul Strand Sixty Years of Photographs“). There were several things that struck me in particular about the enduring creation of one of America’s most prominent modernist photographers (along Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston). As a photographer Strand was driven by an unyielding desire to see the uniqueness and unity of all life matter. Ever since he started photographing in 1909 Strand had constantly sought to express visually the intricacies, dynamism and wonders of life, from the fervent streets of New York City in the 1915s to the delicate close-up…