Imagine 5.4 million deaths. It overloads the mind. There is no sliding scale of moral outrage, increasing in direct proportion to human suffering. The indignation we feel at 10 innocent deaths is not magnified 10 times if there are 100 such fatalities. Instead, our heartstrings are more likely to be tugged by a human face, a tragic story.
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Shooting America
Shortly after Robert Frank photographed rich bankers and poor miners on the rainy cobblestone streets of London and Wales, he turned his lens on America. Armed with a Guggenheim fellowship, he travelled the country from 1955 to 1956, taking in the prosaic and the profound: diners and honky-tonks, roadside memorials, parades and political rallies, open highways and segregated trolley cars. Eighty-three of these black-and-white images became Frank’s seminal work, The Americans, published 50 years ago last month and just re-released in a new edition by Steidl and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
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