Photographing the Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement David B

Robert Frank truly captured America’s imperfections through his camera lens. In most if not in all of his photographs, Frank displays that there is no sense of community and everyone tends to keep to themselves. Robert Frank actually wasn’t liked by many modern photographers, mainly because of how he took his photographs. He would often crop people and objects out of the image and would make them blurry by not focusing.     With that being said, I strongly believe that Robert Frank’s “art” photography is more effective than  Counts’ news photography. Even though both artists depict a strong sense of social inequities in American society of the Fifties, Frank manages to capture way more than just the segregation aspect of the Fifties. For example, in his “Drug Store, Detroit” photograph, he manages to capture not only the clear segregation of the black waitress, but also of the intense commercialism.