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 … work?) He consistently and simply refused to do the kind of analysis of his own work that may have been necessary for its continued development (as Lee Friedlander has shown in his career), or necessary for its cessation (as Robert Frank showed in his). That may be the cause of his frustration, and of the ultimate tragedy of Winogrand’s last decade. I didn’t know Winogrand personally. We said hello here and there across the country, …  Robert Frank in ‘Home Improvements’ Interview with photographer Robert Frank, Film Comment, August 1987 By Marlaine Glicksman “I’d like to make a film which would mingle the private aspects of my life with my work, which is public by definition… how the two poles of this dichotomy join, interlace, are at variance , and fight each other, as much as they complement each other… “Two houses. Two countries. …  …tury” Newcastle-upon-Tyne, April 11-16, 2005 Whereas Ansel Adams photographed the sinuous, abstract patterns left by timeless winds on desert sand dunes (Sand Dunes, Oceano, California, c. 1950), New Topographics photographer Robert Adams’s photograph of a similar western scene turns out to be dune-buggy tracks crisscrossing the desert floor (East of Eden, Colorado, 1977). Landscape photographs by Ansel Adams helped reinforce the image of the Ame…  From Lower West Side, 1972-1977 Milton Rogovin: An Activist Photographer; An Interview by Robert Hirsch (Editors Note: Milton Rogovin, the Buffalo social documentary photographer who was renowned for revealing the unsung stories and inherent dignity of the poor, disinherited and working class, died Tuesday morning, 1/18/11, in his Chatham Avenue home. Mr. Rogovin was 101.) By Robert Hirsch, September 1, 2004 What was your family background? M…  ”I enjoy cooking, dogs, cats, kids, soccer, and living here.” Interview by Robert Hirsch of Light Research Bill Owens’s Suburbia (1972) is a quintessential photographic study of suburban California life and of its rituals. Owens followed with Our Kind of People (1975), which examined political, religious, scholastic, and sports groups and their practices. Then he published Working: I Do It for Money (1977) that looked at people wh… INTERVIEW: “Robert Hirsch with Bill Owens – Photographing the Suburban Soul” (2005)  The National Gallery of Art organized a comprehensive exhibit of Robert Frank’s work (Images courtesy of: National Gallery of Art; Produced by: Diane Bolz and Brian Wolly) … ASX.TV: Robert Frank – “Inside Robert Frank’s The Americans” (2010)  …ax Kozloff In the United States during the mid-1950s, two photographers were each making the works that would eventually form two of the most renowned photobooks of the twentieth century – William Klein’s New York (1955) and Robert Frank’s Les Americains (1958). Both were expatriates of a kind, one returning for a brief period to his homeland after living in Europe, the other an immigrant to the United States from Switzerland. Though very differ…  Sick of Goodby’s, Mabou 1978, Robert Frank By Lou Reed, Tate Magazine, Issue 2, Autumn, 2004 I was looking at Robert Frank’s photograph Sick of Goodby’s in his book The Lines of My Hand. Moments before I had been listening to a Johnny Cash song called I Wish I Was Crazy Again. Then I thought of the goodbyes in the book to old friends caught once and for all and never again to be seen in life, and I was struck by the intensity of the sadn… … Jesse Helms and his colleagues in the United States Senate have been as eager to limit pornography on the Internet as to cut money from the National Endowment for the Arts to punish it for sponsoring the work of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The contemporary hostility to the visual in some contemporary criticism thus has deep roots. All such criticism shares an assumption that a visually dominated culture must be impoverished or even schizop… THEORY: "Nicholas Mirzoeff: An Introduction to Visual Culture" (1999)  …s and that “magic”, you know it, but the magic is now mixed with the dominating awareness of the “lion” and the invading anxieties of the world seen through mind of the adult. In Summer Nights Walking, Robert Adams taps fiercely into our feelings and memories and he does it with his deft and recognizable, delicate touch. The book layout is a visual tour from the streets of the Longmont, Colorado suburbs to the top of the s… | ||||||||||||||
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