Being a big fan of art in general, I tend to spend a great deal of my time in that section of libraries when I have the chance. Back in the good old days of 2007, I picked up a grainy little book called "The Americans". And it was then my love for Robert Frank was born.
Frank was delivered out into the world in 1924, in the city Zurich. He moved to New York City in 1947.
Frank's perspective of American changed, he saw the place as an empty and too concentrated on money and power. This view is often illustrated in his photographs.
He's been referred to as a kind of a Alexis de Tocqueville.
His book shows American in the mid 50's. The majority of the subjects in his book look pensive.
I liked it a lot, and maybe you will too.
For anyone remotely interested, another one of my favorite photographers is Philip-Lorca diCorcia. He's an American photographer from the East Coast that's been around since the 1970's. He's teaching at Yale.
-Phoebe Chao
2 comments:
America?: "that numerous and diverse legion of vulgarians, feeble miscreates, half-taught petty tyrants who make a point of instantly latching on to the most fashionable current idea, only to vulgarize it at once, to make an instant caricature of everything they themselves serve, sometimes quite sincerely" (365). -Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Post a Comment