Last Looks

Having looked at Robert Frank’s first shot for The Americans last week, it makes sense to turn to his last shot this week.  It shows us where he began this project and where he ended it. If that first photograph documents a social moment, the last one shows a personal moment: the photographer’s wife and [...]

Eyes Wide Shut

I went to the Robert Frank exhibit at the Met yesterday.  It was too crowded to really enjoy it, and the ordering of the images was chaotic, but the photographs are worth looking at for as long as possible.  Frank took the 80+ photographs of The Americans over several road trips in 1955. The image [...]

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