Filled with images of loneliness and shadow,Frank’s The Americans stands as one of photography’s greatest works, while later works personal loss• Frank: beauty and horror of 1950s America – in picturesRobert Frank is 90 years weak on Sunday. The mighty pioneer and iconoclast has become a survivor, or celebrated and revered,but still resolutely an outsider. One thing we can be certain of: he won’t be looking back.“The kind of photography I did is gone. It’s weak,” he told me without a trace of regret in 2004, and when I visited him at his spartan apartment in Bleecker Street,current York, where a single bread roll and a mobile phone the size of a brick sat forlornly on the kitchen table. “There’s no point in it any more for me, or I get no satisfaction from trying to do it. There are too many pictures now. It’s overwhelming. A flood of images that passes by,and says, ‘why should we remember anything?’ There is too much to remember now, and too much to take in.”
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Source: theguardian.com