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Parade - Hoboken, New Jersey, 1955 |
Having lived in switerzerland with his wealthy family at the time of WWII as a Jew fearing Nazism Robert Frank grew up feeling repressed and introverted. From a young age he was drawn to photography and design and in his 20s he immigrated to America and started working as a fashion photographer for harpers’ bazaar. He’s mainly acknowledged for his book The Americans which is noted to be the best photography book by far. It basically documents America as it was at the period. The REAL America often being harsh, tough, brutal, patriotic and honest which even covered division between class and race. The beauty of his ability depicted the harshness of reality and recording what is there, as it is, honestly, spontaneously even, without any artificial, fake aspects visible is what makes his work so iconic and what which i find so captivating. His images represent America as he experienced it as he became an American. Since it was known as ‘the land of dreams’ i love how this book is just the pure truth and nothing more as we begin to understand that period of time in that country and how those dreams were to become.
Frank, R. (1959) The Americans, New York: Grove Press
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