Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That I'm not sure of...But I do know that Kerouac wrote the intro to the book... -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Slobodan Dimitrov Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 5:32 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Beholder of the Eye - Frank Wasn't he travelling with Jack Kerouac when he shot most of the images? S. Dimitrov > From: Tim Atherton <timatherton@theedge.ca> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 13:50:33 -0600 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: RE: [Leica] Beholder of the Eye - Frank > > >> Then Robert Frank has what sort of eye? > > Has (after 40 years here) or had? (perhaps it's more Euro/Canadian > now...) > > The Americans is absolutely a European eye looking at the US in that > particular time. In fact it is highly unlikely an "American" > photographer could have come up with anything approaching that view. > The closest would be, perhaps, Winogrand's Guggenheim cris-crossing > the US in 1964 - and he does indeed come to it all with a rather > different "eye" from Frank. > > The Americans could, I think, only have been done by an outsider - > this outsider happening to be a European. > > tim > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information