Despite being born in Switzerland, Robert Frank defined and diagnosed America in the ’50s in ways that his contemporaries couldn’t. While his peers were photographing the optimistic and prosperous 50’s post-war United States, Frank’s photography took a stark and much more realistic turn. Frank’s childhood was difficult – in the 1930s, the fear of Hitler […]
A Foreigner’s Road Trip – Robert Frank’s America Read More »
It’s been about four months since I last posted some of my photography here. If you’d like to see more of a daily feed, you should check me out on Instagram. I enjoy shooting up until New Years, but always have a very hard time in the bitter cold of January and February when you tense
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Winter is coming and it’s been dreary for the last few days, so I thought I’d finish up my list of favorite New York and New Yorker documentaries to get you through the cold. We’ve got movies on artists, photographers, a tour guide, fashion icons, New York history, pick-up basketball, the Bowery, the people who
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James Maher News Interview from James Maher on Vimeo.
Photogenic New York, Fox 5 News Interview Read More »
All photographs copyright Eggleston Artistic Trust William Eggleston may be one of the most celebrated and misunderstood photographers in history. Born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1939 and raised in Mississippi, Eggleston was an introverted man born into a wealthy aristocratic family of former plantation owners. Eggleston was influenced by Robert Frank’s The Americans, Henri Cartier-Bresson’s
Photographing the ‘Boring,’ the History and Photography of William Eggleston Read More »
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