And What Else Do We Know by Him? A Response to 0.2964285
As Michael has shown us, the process of editing and sequencing
photographic work is a process that’s at least as important to the actual shooting of
images. But his example of Robert Frank’s The Americans is interesting for another reason:
isn’t this the almost archetypical one-hit-wonder? Or put differently: what else do you know
by...
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As touched on in Johannes’ previous posts (Discovering/Uncovering the
Magic and Difficulties and Successes), there is one part of the photographic process that is
often forgotten or undervalued. The exercise of picking out the images from a shoot which
together create a coherent narrative in a photographic series is an ability every
photographer must develop....
Jack Kerouac and Robert Frank
Jack Kerouac writes in his introduction to Robert Franks seminal book
“The Americans”; “After seeing these pictures you end up finally not knowing any more
whether a juke box is sadder than a coffin […] What a poem this is, what poems can be
written about this book of pictures some day by some young...
