When I was just learning to be a photographer (a million years ago) one of my teachers saw the kind of work I was doing (black and white images of my friends around my hometown) and told me I should check out Robert Frank’s “The Americans”. I went to the school library and found the book he was talking about and sat in the stacks just absorbing the amazing images that made up “The Americans”. The work changed how I composed images and showed me I could explore different angles when making photos. I still use thing that I found in that book to this day.
As I was stuck in traffic one day last week I heard that MOCA has oped up their archive of the artists images. The show runs until 10/19/09 (I have no idea why I didn’t hear about this earlier) so get yourselves to downtown LA asap.
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