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Subject: [Leica] Beholder of the Eye - Frank
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Tue May 25 18:39:57 2004

That's what I recall also, just wasn't sure. I did some checking, and it
seems that Frank took his family along on this road trip.

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/cruelandtender/frank.ht

S. Dimitrov



> From: doug kim <yup@pacbell.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 15:03:36 -0700
> To: "Leica Users' Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Beholder of the Eye - Frank
> 
> 
> the story on the kerouac intro is that frank showed jack the book of photos
> at a party in nyc and kerouac said "sure, i can write about these."
> 
> doug
> 
> On 5/25/04 2:45 PM, "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>> 
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> -- 
> doug kim
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Replies: Reply from s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov) ([Leica] Beholder of the Eye - Frank)
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