Robert Frank, Pivotal Figure in Documentary Photography, Is Dead at 94

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Robert Frank, Pivotal Figure in Documentary Photography, Is Dead at 94

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Sad day,one of my inspirations

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Robert Frank, one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, whose visually raw and personally expressive style was pivotal in changing the course of documentary photography, died on Monday in Inverness, Nova Scotia. He was 94.

“The Americans” challenged the presiding midcentury formula for photojournalism, defined by sharp, well-lighted, classically composed pictures, whether of the battlefront, the homespun American heartland or movie stars at leisure. Mr. Frank’s photographs — of lone individuals, teenage couples, groups at funerals and odd spoors of cultural life — were cinematic, immediate, off-kilter and grainy, like early television transmissions of the period. They would secure his place in photography’s pantheon. The cultural critic Janet Malcolm called him the “Manet of the new photography.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/arts ... GjaA5KQNVI

Although not widely marketed he did a movie on the rolling stones 1972 US tour, Initially he would not allow it to be shown (under court order) unless he was present

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In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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