Robert Frank ...

Well, I haven't posted for a while as I haven't found anything I thought was worthy of posting here, but i'm back now :)

Some of you, being street photography fans, have probably heard of Robert Frank, but if not, I thought i'd post some of his pictures ...

His most famous photography book is "The Americans", which was recently re-released because he got the original prints and re-scanned them to make them better quality ... the book also has a foreword by beat poet Jack Kerouac ... Also, some of his photography is on the front cover of 'Exile on Main St.' by the Rolling Stones ...
I like his photographs ("The Americans" in particular) because there's nothing contrived or 'posed' about them, they're quick-fire shots ... a good example is the one i've put just above, which is called 'Elevator, Miami Beach'.

Well, if you haven't heard of him I suggest you dig out "The Americans", and try not to be inspired!

Joe.


"When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice" - Robert Frank

"Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank might strike someone as being sloppy - the tone range isn't right and things like that - but they're far superior to the pictures of Ansel Adams with regard to quality, because the quality of Ansel Adams, if I may say so, is essentially the quality of a postcard. But the quality of Robert Frank is a quality that has something to do with what he's doing, what his mind is. It's not balancing out the sky to the sand and so forth. It's got to do with intention" - Elliott Erwitt

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