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Lost City (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Alan Klotz, a friend, runs a photography gallery in Chelsea, and every year he throwing a Holiday Sale in which the prices of the treasures in his collection are slashed. Even if you're not a collector, or have the jack to buy a print, this sale is a lot of fun, because Alan always has plenty of great shots of Old New York. And I've usually found there was almost always something wonderful that even...
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Song of a Reformed Headhunter (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
The Met exhibition features all 83 of the photographs in Frank's "The Americans," made on a cross-country roadtrip in 1955-56. The experience of seeing the photographs on the wall was very different from that of viewing the images in a book. Looking at the photos so carefully sequenced by Frank, I was led in a linear fashion from room to room, and so experienced in a small way the journey...
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
An exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art shows Americans as they once were WHEN “The Americans”, a collection of 83 imaginative and powerful photographs by Robert Frank, was first published in America in 1959 it was attacked for being anti-American. With McCarthyism still in the air, the country’s preferred self-portrait resembled Norman Rockwell’s covers...
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Blog (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Robert Frank. Political Rally, Chicago, 1956. MoCP Collection. With the opening of the exhibition of images in Robert Frank’s book The Americans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, filmmaker Philippe Seclier’s An American Journey: Revisiting Robert Frank’s The Americans, a...
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Japan Times (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
In the 1950s American photographer Robert Frank traveled the United States with help from a Guggenheim grant, taking a series of sublime images of people from all walks of life documenting the mediocrity of diners and cocky cowboys to funerals and soulless bus depots. These images, which culminated in the now seminal photo book "The Americans," first published in 1958, were to change modern...
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[helix] (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Robert Frank Reno, Nevada (1956) We, living now are always to ourselves young men and women. When we, living always in such feeling, think back to them who make for us a beginning, it is always as grown and old men and women or as little children that we feel them, these whose lives we have just been thinking. Sometimes we talk it long, but really, it is only very little time we feel ourselves ever...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
In his introduction to the iconic book of photographs, The Americans, Jack Kerouac wrote, You Got Eyes, honoring photographer Robert Frank as if he...
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Letter from Here (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Not for the first time, I've got a few bones to pick with The New York Times. Can't they assign a copy editor who knows something about photography to write the head for a review of one of the most historic photo exhibits in a long time? "America, captured in a flash"???!!! Why would you use the word "flash" to describe the work of a pioneer of available light street photography...
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ArtCal (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Robert Mann Gallery 210 Eleventh Avenue, 212-989-7600 Chelsea September 24 - December 23, 2009 Opening: Thursday, September 24, 6 - 8 PM Web Site Robert Mann Gallery is pleased to begin the fall season with Robert Frank, the premiere exhibition in our renovated Chelsea gallery space. Representing an outstanding collection of exquisite rare Frank prints, the exhibition will include iconic images from...
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Jezebel (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
In the 1950s,In 1955, photographer Robert Frank snapped a picture of a girl in her uniform, working the elevator in a Miami hotel, as she looked toward the camera with an unreadable expression. Her... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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World Hum (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
The previously unknown woman in Robert Frank’s photo “Elevator—Miami Beach,” the woman Jack Kerouac singled out in his introduction to Frank’s book, “The Americans,” has revealed herself. She’s Sharon Collins. At the time of the photo she was working the elevator at the Sherry Frontenac Hotel. Kerouac described Collins as “That little ole lonely...
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Lens Culture (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
There's a short, sweet story on NPR's "All Things Considered" about a woman who recognized herself in a photo she saw in an exhibition of the photos from Robert Frank's The Americans . In Jack Kerouac's introduction to the book, he wrote, "That little ole lonely elevator girl looking up sighing in an elevator full of blurred demons, what's her name and address?" Sharon Collins...
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Space 15 Twenty (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
The Americans by Robert Frank, Jack Kerouac Previously published in 1959, Frank's most famous and influential photography book contained a series of deceptively simple photos that he took on a trip through America in 1955 and 1956. These pictures of everyday people still speak to us today, 40 years and several generations later. Traveling With the VW Bus and Camper by David Eccles, Cee Eccles Introduced...
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SFist (Free subscription) | 06/13/2009
by Ted Weinstein With July 4th fast approaching, there might be no better way to express -- and examine -- your patriotism than a visit to SFMOMA to see Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans" , the Swiss photographer's profound and path-breaking look at our fair nation. He shot nearly 800 rolls of film over the course of his 1955 road trip around America and it's simply perfect that...
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Wonkette (Free subscription) | 03/25/2009
Robert Frank, the photographer who just may be the subject of the National Gallery of Art's Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, worked alongside Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac in deconstructing America's idea of itself in the 1950's. Though "derivatives" do most of the heavy lifting in depantsing America ...
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