[Leica] Beholder of the Eye - Frank

[s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)]

Wasn't he travelling with Jack Kerouac when he shot most of the images?
S. Dimitrov 

> From: Tim Atherton <timatherton@theedge.ca>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 13:50:33 -0600
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Beholder of the Eye - Frank
> 
> 
>> Then Robert Frank has what sort of eye?
> 
> Has (after 40 years here) or had?  (perhaps it's more Euro/Canadian now...)
> 
> The Americans is absolutely a European eye looking at the US in that
> particular time. In fact it is highly unlikely an "American" photographer
> could have come up with anything approaching that view. The closest would
> be, perhaps, Winogrand's Guggenheim cris-crossing the US in 1964 - and he
> does indeed come to it all with a rather different "eye" from Frank.
> 
> The Americans could, I think, only have been done by an outsider - this
> outsider happening to be a European.
> 
> tim
> 
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