Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I believe that Lee Friedlander had his family/wife with him during his shooting. But then with his dictum of always shooting at least one roll per day, if not more, I couldn't see how he could keep his personal life out of it. S. Dimitrov > From: doug kim <yup@pacbell.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 20:31:42 -0700 > To: "Leica Users' Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Beholder of the Eye - Frank > > > good lord, i have enough trouble shooting when a friend is around chatting > me up, much less my entire family. > > the "americans" series is still one of my all time favorites. there are some > proof sheets from this set published in a book. its great to see how he gets > an idea and develops it over a few frames. > > doug > > On 5/25/04 7:01 PM, "Slobodan Dimitrov" <s.dimitrov@charter.net> wrote: > >> >> For some reason I keep dropping the 'm' at the end. >> >> 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.htm >> >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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