{"id":109812,"date":"2019-09-11T15:41:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T13:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/09\/11\/robert-frank-the-outsider-genius-whose-photographs-laid-bare-americas-soul\/"},"modified":"2019-09-11T15:41:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T13:41:03","slug":"robert-frank-the-outsider-genius-whose-photographs-laid-bare-americas-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=109812","title":{"rendered":"Robert Frank: the outsider genius whose photographs laid bare America&#039;s soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His stark masterpiece The Americans changed photography. Yet there was more to this countercultural hero who captured the debauchery of the Stones \u2013 and his own personal tragedies Robert Frank dies aged 94\u2018People want to know so much,\u201d Robert Frank answered wearily when I asked him back in 2004 about the lasting resonance of his classic photobook, The Americans. \u201cAll the time, this wanting to know. Where does it lead? Nowhere.\u201dWe were sitting in the spartanly furnished kitchen of his apartment on Manhattan\u2019s Bleecker Street, my tape recorder resting on a rickety table between a large brick of a mobile phone and a single bread roll. He was, it strikes me now, a man for whom fame and its comforts meant very little, whose sadness seemed more palpable than his genius. Almost 80 then, he seemed ineffably world-weary. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2019\/sep\/11\/robert-frank-the-americans-outsider-genius-photography\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Frank: the outsider genius whose photographs laid bare America&#039;s soul<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His stark masterpiece The Americans changed photography. Yet there was more to this countercultural hero who captured the debauchery of the Stones \u2013 and his own personal tragedies Robert Frank dies aged 94\u2018People want to know so much,\u201d Robert Frank answered wearily when I asked him back in 2004 about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}