What Robert Frank found hidden in 27,000 photos
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Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans: Expanded Edition is a great book on Frank and how The Americans came together. From contact sheets to his print layout. I love that he cropped and not pretend like HCB that he always took the perfect picture. Which his most famous photograph is heavily cropped. Another famous cropper was W Eugene Smith. He did everything to his prints to bring out the truth that he saw. Today I hear to many people say donāt crop to just get it right in camera. I shoot sports, Iāve never seen a sports pictures that couldnāt be improved with cropping.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frank
https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2013/01/07/timeless-lessons-street-photographers-can-learn-from-robert-franks-the-americans/
1 in 10 is amazing. I feel pretty good if I get 1 I like in 50 ... or so. But I also wonder if I could print tiny collages of prints in that way. I know I used a 4x6 collage setting to print some selected images to use as tiny photos to decorate the walls of a dollhouse I made for a grandchild, but I never thought of doing that just to print out images for sorting.
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good timing, I am about to tackle all last summers street work...<3
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Hi Alex, I always like watching the work of Robert Frank and the story behind him. I like printing my photos because they look much better than my computer. Excellent topic, thanks Alex š.
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Not the first Robert frank that came to mind lolš
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I agree with this, you never know what your work truly looks like until you print it. And, print it in the size that fits the photo itself, some large, some huge and some small to experience the feel of each photo the way you intended when you shot it. Doing this as proofs keeps the cost down in a big way.
@ChristianAndrew14He made three main roadtrips funded by two Guggenheim scholarships (1955 and 1956). "Robert Frank: In America" (ed. Peter Galassi) is a book of photos not included in the 83 in "The Americans". In fact, nearly all the photos are quite dull and mediocre. So much so, that to give that collection any real interest, a number of photos from "The Americans" had to be included. Frank's book changed the world, and it is that strict edit, guided by the ideas and principles of the Beat poets, that makes that book. And Frank more or less gave up photography after that, using photos for ony rather obscure, very private projects.
@LloydSpencerThanks for sharing.
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@twalicekGreat insight. That culling process must have been lasting quite some time ....
@peterlieberzeit3138Steven King, when describing the act of writing and how to self-edit your draft, said the following: āKill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribblers heart, kill your darlingsā
Thatās exactly how it feels to me when I commit to pressing the DELETE buttonā¦
An other great video Alex.
@alstuart8801That is 1 keeper every 325 shots. Is that good?
@genehilmu8189The bigger problem I have is organization to begin with! If I could find half my images, I would be happy. š¤·š»
@simon359good topic, good photographer R Frank.
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