Some reading: Robert Frank and Chris Buck
A article on Robert Frank in the Times, here. Including a multimedia feature, here.
photo: “Canal Street – New Orleans, 1955” from The Americans, ©Robert Frank.
photo: “Robert Frank, photographer, Mabou Mines, Nova Scotiam July 17, 1975” ©Richard Avedon.
(Of course another artist initialed R.F. who defined a sort of America
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.“The Road Not Taken”
-Robert Frost
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And as much as I try to avoid regurgitation by linking to blog posts elsewhere, this interview with Chris Buck is enough for an exception, part 1 and part 2.
photo: Philip-Lorca diCorcia for PDN magazine, ©Chris Buck.
That portrait by Chris is of, as you probably know, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, who’s work isn’t trivial. I thought he’d be a good end note to kick the week off with.
photo: “Gianni,” ©Philip-lorca diCorcia.
I want to be Gianni… except for, no phone
Don’t we all!
Bougie-moor-gangsta.