⚠️ About yesterday’s post⚠️ ‘People want to know so much,” Robert Frank answered wearily when I asked him back in 2004 about the lasting resonance of his classic photobook, The Americans. “All the time, this wanting to know. Where does it lead? Nowhere.” Swiss-born Frank had photographed what he saw with his keen outsider’s eye, capturing what Diane Arbus would later describe as “the hollowness” of many American lives. In doing so, he challenged not just the prevailing romanticism of the American pictorialist tradition but also the easy certainties of photojournalism. “I was tired of romanticism,” he told me. “I wanted to present what I saw, pure and simple.” Sean O’Hagan, The Guardian #robertfrank #theamericans #quote #quoteoftheday #artquote #photoquote #fotografia #fineartphoto #arthistoryquotes #arthistorynerd #arthistorian #arthistorymemes https://www.instagram.com/p/CF5zVE3g-An/?igshid=zgifx7rg6xtd