Re: [Leica] Frank at The Corcoran

["Bill Harting" <wharting@adelphia.net>]

Steve, will there be a catalog (can't imagine there will not). I saw a
single Frank print from London while on my way in to see last fall's Avedon
Show at the Met in NYC, and it was startling: I'd been unaware of work he
did before the Americans.
bh

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From: "Steve LeHuray" <steve@streetphoto.net>
To: "SP" <streetphoto@topica.com>; "Leica"
<leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 12:51 PM
Subject: [Leica] Frank at The Corcoran


>
> I am back from a Press preview this morning of the new Robert Frank
Exhibit
> "London/Wales." This is a side of Robert Frank that nobody has seen
before.
>
> From the Wall Text Intro Panel:
>
> "War is over; the heroic French population reaffirms superiority, Paris,
and
> Flowers...but London was black, white and gray, the elegance, the style,
all
> present in front of always changing fog. Then I met a man from Wales
talking
> about the Miners and I had to read 'How Green Was My Valley.' This became
my
> only try to make a 'Story'."
>
> - Robert Frank
>
> These pictures taken between 1951 - 1953 show contrasting opposing themes
> such as money/work, rich/poor and city/country in London and Wales. Most
of
> these pictures are unpublished and about 20 of the pictures had never been
> printed before. These pictures came to light while Frank and Curator Peter
> Brockman worked in Washington, DC (Frank's negatives are housed in DC) to
> organize the exhibit.
>
> I found these "London/Wales" pictures much more compelling and with rich
> content than 'The Americans.' What really comes through in these pictures
is
> the bleakness of London and Wales during that period. I found the London
> portion to be much more interesting than the Wales set.
>
> These also convinced me of the value of Street Photography for historical
> reasons.
>
> The Exhibit will be at the Corcoran from May 10 to July 14 and well worth
a
> visit.
>
> sl
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