Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]the story on the kerouac intro is that frank showed jack the book of photos at a party in nyc and kerouac said "sure, i can write about these." doug On 5/25/04 2:45 PM, "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote: > That I'm not sure of...But I do know that Kerouac wrote the intro to the > book... > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > Slobodan Dimitrov > Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 5:32 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] Beholder of the Eye - Frank > > > 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- doug kim http://www.ricecracker.net/