A Memory of Robert Frank

Posted by dektol on September 28, 2019 · 1 Comment

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/09/27/when-fathers-die-remembering-robert-frank/

In the NYR Daily. Written in a cabin in Maine upon hearing of Robert’s death.

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Builder Levy says:

September 29, 2019 at 9:11 am

Thank you Danny for sharing about your life with Robert Frank. I appreciate these humanizing memories about both you and Robert Frank, two photographer artists whose work I love and have found inspirational.

Wishing you all the very best,

Builder Builder Levy http://www.builderlevy.com

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow Author of 4 books: Images of Appalachian Coalfields Builder Levy Photographer Appalachia USA Humanity in the Streets New York City 1960s-1980s

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