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Anybody doesn't like these pitchers dont like potry, see? Anybody dont like potry go home see Television shots of big hatted cowboys being tolerated by kind horses.
- Jack Kerouac, introduction to The Americans.
Walker Evans, in the 1958 issue of U.S. Camera, wrote what may be one of the most memorable statements on Robert Frank's photographs from his 1955/56 journeys on his Guggenheim Fellowship when he said: Assuredly the gods who sent Robert Frank, so heavily armed, across the United States did so with a certain smile.
He continued: That Frank has responded to America with many tears, some hope, and his own brand of fascination, you can see in looking over the rest of his pictures of people, of roadside landscapes and urban cauldrons and of semi-satanic children. He shows high irony towards a nation that generally speaking has it not; adult detachment towards the more-or-less juvenile section of the population that came into his view..
A selection of the photographs from the Guggenheim award would be published first as Les Americains in France and then as The Americans in the United States, one year later.
- Jack Kerouac, introduction to The Americans.
Walker Evans, in the 1958 issue of U.S. Camera, wrote what may be one of the most memorable statements on Robert Frank's photographs from his 1955/56 journeys on his Guggenheim Fellowship when he said: Assuredly the gods who sent Robert Frank, so heavily armed, across the United States did so with a certain smile.
He continued: That Frank has responded to America with many tears, some hope, and his own brand of fascination, you can see in looking over the rest of his pictures of people, of roadside landscapes and urban cauldrons and of semi-satanic children. He shows high irony towards a nation that generally speaking has it not; adult detachment towards the more-or-less juvenile section of the population that came into his view..
A selection of the photographs from the Guggenheim award would be published first as Les Americains in France and then as The Americans in the United States, one year later.