Portland, Oregon, USA. 26 févr., 2018. Photographe Robert Frank's 'Trolley' - cadre 16 - à partir de son livre 'Les Américains'imprimé sur du papier journal à Blue Sky Gallery à Portland, Oregon, USA. Le travail a été détruit dans une "destruction" de la danse, détériorer la performance les photographies avec de l'encre et féminines avec des ciseaux, des couteaux et même des patins à glace à la fin de son terme. La destruction a été la protestation de Frank sur la cupidité d'aujourd'hui dans le marché de l'art mondial. Credit : Ken Hawkins/Alamy Live News
4608 x 3456 px | 39 x 29,3 cm | 15,4 x 11,5 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
25 février 2018
Lieu:
Blue Sky Photography Gallery, Northwest 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, USA
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With the aid of his major artistic influence, the photographer Walker Evans, Frank secured a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation[ in 1955 to travel across the United States and photograph all strata of its society. Cities he visited included Detroit and Dearborn, Michigan; Savannah, Georgia; Miami Beach and St. Petersburg, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; Houston, Texas; Los Angeles, California; Reno, Nevada; Salt Lake City, Utah; Butte, Montana; and Chicago, Illinois. He took his family along with him for part of his series of road trips over the next two years, during which time he took 28, 000 shots. 83 of these were selected by him for publication in The Americans. Frank's journey was not without incident. He later recalled the anti-Semitism to which he was subject in a small Arkansas town. “I remember the guy [policeman] took me into the police station, and he sat there and put his feet on the table. It came out that I was Jewish because I had a letter from the Guggenheim Foundation. They really were primitive.” He was told by the sheriff, “Well, we have to get somebody who speaks Yiddish." ... "They wanted to make a thing out of it. It was the only time it happened on the trip. They put me in jail. It was scary. Nobody knew where I was.” Elsewhere in the South, he was told by a sheriff that he had "an hour to leave town." Shortly after returning to New York in 1957, Frank met Beat writer Jack Kerouac on the sidewalk outside a party and showed him the photographs from his travels. Kerouac immediately told Frank, "Sure I can write something about these pictures." He eventually contributed the introduction to the U.S. edition of The Americans. Frank also became lifelong friends with Allen Ginsberg, and was one of the main visual artists to document the Beat subculture, which felt an affinity with Frank's interest in documenting the tensions between the optimism of the 1950s and the realities of class and racial differences.
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