Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's what I recall also, just wasn't sure. I did some checking, and it seems that Frank took his family along on this road trip. http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/cruelandtender/frank.ht S. Dimitrov > From: doug kim <yup@pacbell.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 15:03:36 -0700 > To: "Leica Users' Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Beholder of the Eye - Frank > > > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information