Robert Frank
Swiss-American · 1924–2019
Photographer and filmmaker whose book The Americans offered a raw, poetic, outsider's vision of postwar America that transformed documentary photography.
Wikipedia ↗“Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.”
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U.S. Camera Annual, 1958 ↗ (1958)
“You know, it's always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.”
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“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”
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“I am grateful to life. It doesn't have to be perfect. It doesn't have to be anything. But I am grateful to it.”
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“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.”
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