[Leica] Beholder of the Eye - Frank

[timatherton at theedge.ca (Tim Atherton)]

> 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