Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Frank at The Corcoran
From: "Steve LeHuray" <steve@streetphoto.net>
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 19:15:10 -0400

> Steve, will there be a catalog (can't imagine there will not). I saw a
> single Frank print from London while on my way in to see last fall's Avedon
> Show at the Met in NYC, and it was startling: I'd been unaware of work he
> did before the Americans.
> bh

Bill -- yes there is a catalog and somebody just posted info on how to get
it.

sl


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve LeHuray" <steve@streetphoto.net>
> To: "SP" <streetphoto@topica.com>; "Leica"
> <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 12:51 PM
> Subject: [Leica] Frank at The Corcoran
>
>
>>
>> I am back from a Press preview this morning of the new Robert Frank
> Exhibit
>> "London/Wales." This is a side of Robert Frank that nobody has seen
> before.
>>
>> From the Wall Text Intro Panel:
>>
>> "War is over; the heroic French population reaffirms superiority, Paris,
> and
>> Flowers...but London was black, white and gray, the elegance, the style,
> all
>> present in front of always changing fog. Then I met a man from Wales
> talking
>> about the Miners and I had to read 'How Green Was My Valley.' This became
> my
>> only try to make a 'Story'."
>>
>> - Robert Frank
>>
>> These pictures taken between 1951 - 1953 show contrasting opposing themes
>> such as money/work, rich/poor and city/country in London and Wales. Most
> of
>> these pictures are unpublished and about 20 of the pictures had never been
>> printed before. These pictures came to light while Frank and Curator Peter
>> Brockman worked in Washington, DC (Frank's negatives are housed in DC) to
>> organize the exhibit.
>>
>> I found these "London/Wales" pictures much more compelling and with rich
>> content than 'The Americans.' What really comes through in these pictures
> is
>> the bleakness of London and Wales during that period. I found the London
>> portion to be much more interesting than the Wales set.
>>
>> These also convinced me of the value of Street Photography for historical
>> reasons.
>>
>> The Exhibit will be at the Corcoran from May 10 to July 14 and well worth
> a
>> visit.
>>
>> sl
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