Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Robert Frank....For whatever it's worth, I'd suggest that Robert Frank is in > some ways a tragic figure in terms of photography in that he was someone > with an incredible vision, and pretty amazing visual skills, who, in a > sense, abandoned that vision and those skills to move in other directions. I > know there are those who will disagree with me - :-) - but I think that if > he is judge by what he's done in those "other directions," he'd be > considered a very minor figure. It is only because of The Americans that > anyone pays any attention to Frank. > > B. D. > Throwing the old grenade and ducking.;-) > I mostly agree, and if Jack kerouac had not written the forward to the Americans there would have been no book. Further, 'The Americans' was/is loved by the far left 'blame America first' crowd. Having said that some of Frank's work other than 'The Americans' is brilliant. sl - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html