Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 27/3/00 1:58 am, Mark Rabiner at mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com wrote: > ARTHURWG@aol.com wrote: >> >> Robert Frank is very simply the greatest living photographer and one of the >> very few true artists working in photography. > > I just finished looking at his book "Americans" or something like that two > hours > ago at Powells and you're not going to get much of an argument from me! Nor me. But what most people don't know is that R Frank is also one of the funniest photographers there is. In the 50s the NY times produced a book of his photographs called ZERO MOSTEL READS A BOOK. I've only ever seen it in the British Library, but it is the single funniest book of photographs I have ever seen and all of ... yes... Zero Mostel reading a book. Go figure. - -- Johnny Deadman photos: http://www.pinkheadedbug.com music: http://www.jukebox.demon.co.uk