The power of a project
Photographs need photographs
For other examples:
Richard Misrach p. 49
Muzi Quawson p. 95
Maciej Dakowicz p. 116
First published in 1958, Robert Frank’s The Americans is a photography book portraying America as a country of loneliness, insecurity and racial segregation. It takes you on a road trip right into the disconnected heart of 1950s America.
As an art student the photographs confused me. They all seemed a little rough around the edges. They didn’t conform to my idea of ‘good photography’.
It was two more years before I realized I’d been looking at the The Americans all wrong. I’d been seeing the book as individual pictures; analyzing each one separately, trying to fathom why this one or that one was so ‘great’.
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