His work was concise and acute, especially with the series "the Americans" In this series his ability to see Americans for who they were and not who they imagined themselves to be was so distilled, and so precise, something that only an outsider looking in could see. And Robert Frank was just that, an outsider looking in, a foreigner. What amazes me most about the series The Americans is the fact that he shot the whole thing in less than 40 rolls of film which is quite astounding. In fact I feel that Robert Frank beat Henri Cartier Bresson at his own game, honing down to an art form, the decisive moment. I especially love Franks work for its candidness about who we are as Americans, he never glossed over with cliche or rhetoric who we are as a people, his work was all encompassing about all physiognomies and physiologies of the American public, a true Walt Whitman of photography.
2006-11-07 03:33:11
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