The look of hope or the look of sadness
Robert Frank's dialogical vision
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3852407 |
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| Authors | Neil Campbell (0000-0003-2313-6608, University of Derby, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 204-221 |
| Publication date | 2003-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1477570003001002005 |
| OpenAlex | W2071818396 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This article examines the work of Robert Frank with reference to his seminal photographic work, The Americans, and its relationships to his later post-1970s images. It argues that the 'outside eye' he brought to the US post-war consensus offered him a new comparative critical position and represented a fundamental, counter-cultural shift in the tradition of documentary photography. This vision formed around Frank's multiple 'dialogues', with the US social landscape, with earlier traditions of documentary and 'street' photography in Europe and the USA, and with the Beat generation's radical challenges to dominant post-war values. This 'moment' of overlapping and interconnected relations forms the basis for this discussion of Frank's importance as a 'political' commentator whose work has influenced generations of photographers and shares much with those writers who emerged as the Beats
Aesthetics · Art · Dialogical self · Epistemology · Photography · Political science · Politics · Sadness · Sociology · Visual arts · History · Law · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Highly cited | No |
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