Robert Frank - Part 1
“I have no regrets. I don’t think I’ve ever gone far enough. I would like to reveal more in the films that I make. To push further. To show it with, you know, more knowledge of what I photograph. To get people to trust me more in the way I photograph them or film them.”
“I was looking at the landscape, I knew I was in America. What am I doing here I asked myself. There was no answer. The landscape didn’t answer me. There was no answer.”
Some random dude: “I see The Americas absolutely as a political book. I don’t think Robert set out to make a political book but it is a political book. I think his intention was about character, to show bleakness, emptiness, the lack of touch, isolation, isolation in crowds, of being lost in a great space. He didn’t see a message, but there is a political message there. Because what causes all that bleakness, who are those people who don’t touch, who is that guy with his shiny silk hat and ribbon. What does he stand for?”
Erwitt, as usual, does not disappoint.
Posted 2 years ago
