“Many photographers are apt to confuse color with noise and to congratulate themselves when they have almost blown you down with screeching hues alone – a bebop of electric blues, furious reds, and poison greens.”
With the aid of his major artistic influence, the photographer Walker Evans, Frank secured a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1955 to travel across the United States and photograph all strata of its society.
ΑΚΟΥΟΝΤΟΣ ΔΕ ΠΑΝΤΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΛΑΟΥ ΕΙΠΕΝ ΤΟΙΣ ΜΑΘΗΤΑΙΣ ΑΥΤΟΥ ΠΡΟΣΕΧΕΤΕ ΑΠΟ ΤΩΝ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΘΕΛΟΝΤΩΝ ΠΕΡΙΠΑΤΕΙΝ ΕΝ ΣΤΟΛΑΙΣ ΚΑΙ ΦΙΛΟΥΝΤΩΝ ΑΣΠΑΣΜΟΥΣ ΕΝ ΤΑΙΣ ΑΓΟΡΑΙΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΩΤΟΚΑΘΕΔΡΙΑΣ ΕΝ ΤΑΙΣ ΣΥΝΑΓΩΓΑΙΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΩΤΟΚΛΙΣΙΑΣ ΕΝ ΤΟΙΣ ΔΕΙΠΝΟΙΣ ΟΙ ΚΑΤΕΣΘΙΟΥΣΙΝ ΤΑΣ ΟΙΚΙΑΣ ΤΩΝ ΧΗΡΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΟΦΑΣΕΙ ΜΑΚΡΑ ΠΡΟΣΕΥΧΟΝΤΑΙ ΟΥΤΟΙ ΛΗΜΨΟΝΤΑΙ ΠΕΡΙΣΣΟΤΕΡΟΝ ΚΡΙΜΑ