I learned a lot too. Stay curious!What a great little video so much to learn in 3.5 min.
Not to take away from the content of the video but it makes me sad to see (I am supposing) the interviewer has given Frank what looks like single-weight digital prints to comment from.
They could have used the book...the close-up shots look like they are from prints.vintage Americans prints are half a million+ $$.
Frank's vintage Americans prints are $500,000+ each.
See 'Don't Blink' and 'AN AMERICAN JOURNEY: IN ROBERT FRANK'S FOOTSTEPS'
Yes. As Robert Frank has already shown, there is really no accounting for American tastes.
Any art - in fact, any *thing* - is only worth what people are willing to pay for it.
Gold is useless as a metal. It's not good for anything except looking pretty. Ditto for most female movie stars under 30.
Any art - in fact, any *thing* - is only worth what people are willing to pay for it.
Gold is useless as a metal. It's not good for anything except looking pretty. Ditto for most female movie stars under 30.
I could image Frank being a young, wide-eyed Swiss seeing America for the first time with his camera.
https://petapixel.com/2018/12/07/robert-frank-on-shooting-his-seminal-photo-book-the-americans/
Thank you for the link. Very interesting.
Contrary to what he says in this video I have to say that his photos in The Americans do not speak to me of a young, wide-eyed Swiss. Rather I see a disillusioned young immigrant in a country he didn't understand and really didn't like very well. America in the 1950s was exploding in population as well as economically. It certainly was not the staid, traditional, Switzerland he had grown up in.
Thank you for the link. Very interesting.
Contrary to what he says in this video I have to say that his photos in The Americans do not speak to me of a young, wide-eyed Swiss. Rather I see a disillusioned young immigrant in a country he didn't understand and really didn't like very well. America in the 1950s was exploding in population as well as economically. It certainly was not the staid, traditional, Switzerland he had grown up in.
We see what we're predisposed to see.
Frank was a budding beatnik, far from being "disillusionized." Kerouac, now the definitive beatnik, arguably loved America. Frank, like Kerouac SAW America, had no illusions to lose.
Every one of the flag-waving Americans Frank photographed had lost someone they loved, or at least someone they knew of... who died saving Europe from itself. Frank invested his life photographing America. Kerouac narrated Pull My Daisy, Frank's film.
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/...=8d1e037ea9c64f08e7646a9cc9edd066&action=view directed by Frank.
Any art - in fact, any *thing* - is only worth what people are willing to pay for it.
Gold is useless as a metal. It's not good for anything except looking pretty. Ditto for most female movie stars under 30.
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