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“I would like to reveal more, and to push further, to show it with more knowledge of what I photograph, and to get people to trust me more, in the way I photograph things.” — Robert Frank
Robert Frank was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century and the tributes have been pouring in since his recent passing (b. 1924, Zurich; d. September 9, 2019, Nova Scotia). This fantastic segment with Charles Kuralt on CBS Sunday Morning from October 1987 – on the occasion of the re-publishing of The Americans and the opening of a traveling retrospective – is as remarkable for what it doesn’t say as for what it says. We don’t think we’ve ever seen a mass media take on fine art that provides as much “dead air” time for the viewers to simply take in the art as you’ll see in this one. In this wide-ranging segment, Kuralt speaks with Frank himself, groundbreaking photography curator Anne Tucker, and then-Cleveland-Museum-director Evan Turner on Frank’s life and work.
As Jack Kerouac said in his introduction to The Americans, “After seeing these pictures you end up finally not knowing any more whether a jukebox is sadder than a coffin.”
