guichang chen: Robert Frank’s America

After watching the short video on a recent exhibition that highlighted Robert Frank’s seminal photography book The Americans and the photographs that didn’t make into the publication.  I found out that Frank’s photographs are artistic, bleak and also political in particular way. He showed that Americans were mostly distracted and bored. when came to a photograph showing that a black woman holding a white baby, the curator had mentioned that Frank didn’t understand why a white woman trusted the black woman and let her holding her baby after he went to the South. above that, Frank also took a photograph that showed many people with different colors on the street. these told us that people were racist at that time period before civil right movement. In all, Frank was trying to give a sense of the country. He was trying to understand how people were related to the country and as a whole