Robert Frank is a Swiss-American photographer and documentary filmmaker. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society.
- What is this book about? - This book is about distanced view of both high and low strata of American society. The book as a whole created a complicated portrait of the period that was viewed as sceptical of contemporary values and evocative of ubiquitous loneliness
- Does the style of photography and camera technique suit the subject matter ? This style of photography is like a documentary as each picture tells the story of him travelling over the period of two years. This lead to 28,000 shots in total with only including 83 of them in the photo book. Each photo has been newly designed to be cropped down and left in their original colour (black and white).
- How do the photographs relate to the captions and any other text on the page? The captions are laid out on the bottom of the page before the photograph, this includes what is happening in the picture or the place and then location of the picture
- How much does this book stick with you after viewing it? Through these photos you can gain an insight on american culture during the 1950's and how wealth was more important in his eyes over race and class differences, which gave his photographs a clear contrast to those of most contemporary American photojournalists.
BLACK LIGHT- KELD HELMER PETERSON
Keld was an Danish photographer who achieved widespread international recognition in the 1940s and 1950s for his abstract colour photographs who was inspired renger-patzsch.