|
Being Frank
Digital photography destroys memory, he believes, with its ability to erase. Art school is another problem, teaching students to be blind. Editors are worse -- they poke the artist's eyes out. Photography: one minute it's not art at all. Then perhaps it is. And then again it is not. That's Robert Frank. "There are too many images," he said. "Too many cameras now. We're all being watched. It gets sillier and sillier. As if all action is meaningful. Nothing is really all that special. It's just life. If all moments are recorded, then nothing is beautiful and maybe photography isn't an art anymore. Maybe it never was." On a related note: Steidl is releasing a new edition of Frank's masterpiece The Americans on the 40th anniversary of when the book was first published. You can preorder now. 
|
|
