i’ve seen some of robert frank’s stuff before and have always been intrigued because he not only collaborated with kerouac but also was a friend. interesting, because besides ginsberg’s interest in documenting the beat generation through photography, there weren’t many prominent photographers of the beat inclination.
robert frank definitely was. and it seems like photography was well-suited to the beat generation, though maybe kerouac’s refusal to accept the obvious, insistence on seeing and acknowledging and recording reality, made photography redundant.
there’s a new show of frank’s work in new york. wish i could go. here’s how jack introduced frank’s book the americans:
“Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world.”
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