Robert Frank - Part 2
“Well I felt it was a powerful country, but a very hypocritical country. I felt it was brutul, the people mostly, and there was a lot of violence that I hadn’t known in Europe. And the more I’ve lived in America, the more I feel how powerful the country, the system is.”
Whoa! Szarkowski makes an appearance.
“The Americans was received to put it most kindly to very mixed critical reactions. Not primarily because of its subject matter, although, many people thought so at the time. It was something in the very bones of the photographs themselves, whereas what was being described had to be described because it was there, it didn’t have to be described according to the rules and formulations that were thought of as being good photography. And the way in which they were photographed made it more difficult to accept, more pessimistic.”
“It was the atmosphere.”
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