I'm a big fan of The Americans, and just saw the announcement on Magnum's Instagram feed.
People do give a great deal of credit for the success of The Americans as a work in its own right as an object rather than just a collection of photos to Robert Delpire, who did the layout and the first publication, in France. I'd love to see the contact sheets. > On 10 Sep 2019, at 15:18, ann sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > > Well, 94 is a good long life at least... (though someone who is still alive > at that age may disagee) I have "The Americans" in my library as well , and > ya gotta know I'm a fan girl. > > Fairly recently there was a nice retrospecitve at the Met that was > splendid... showing some contact sheets with china marker circles indicating > his choices for enlargement.. > > ann sad > >> On 9/10/2019 9:45 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> Sad news today: >> >> Robert Frank, Pivotal Figure in Documentary Photography, Is Dead at 94 >> Mr. Frank’s visually raw and personally expressive style made him one of the >> most influential photographers of the 20th century. >> >> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/arts/robert-frank-dead.html >> >> His photographs turned my head and got under my skin in 1970. I still have >> the used 1968 paperback edition of “The Americans” I bought at a bookstore >> on Fordham Road in the Bronx, NY, then… >> >> I am so happy I was able to see his talk at the Kantor Museum (Stanford >> University, Palo Alto, CA 2014). My friend Linda called and invited me to >> join her: she was photographing the talk for the University. >> >> https://flic.kr/p/q5vzFK >> >> Godspeed, Robert! >> >> G >> — >> Only in silence the word, >> only in dark the light, >> only in dying, life; >> bright the hawk's flight >> on the empty sky. >> >> - "Song of Ea", Ursula K. Le Guin > > -- > ann sanfedele photography > https://annsan.smugmug.com > https://www.cafepress.com/annsanstuff > https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/annsan > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
