Taylor Quinley Blog Post #2

This week I chose to write about John Szarkowski’s thoughts on Robert Frank’s Book ‘The Americans.’ This photographic book was influential in postwar American photography. Frank was known to use unusual focus, low lighting and cropping that deviated from the ideal photographic techniques. The reason I chose this because in the article it talks about how many of the viewers hated this series because it wasn’t your traditional idea of what good photography was. I think this was an excellent read, though short, because it shows that it is okay to step out of that box. I think that with the project I am working on this semester, this was an article that I needed to read seeing as though my project will probably not fall into the category of everyones ideal photography styles. 

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2013/05/john-szarkowski-on-robert-franks-book-the-americans-1986.html