i'm thinking about robert frank ...

... i last saw him in paris three or four years ago with my friend brigitte ollier ... he was very sick ... didn't look like he would live much longer ... we hugged him, like americans do, to try and give him energy, at least a little bit of it ...

here's what elliott errwitt says of robert frank:

"quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range ... that's not quality, that's a kind of quality ... the pictures of robert frank might strike someone as being sloppy - the tone range isn't right and things like that - but they're far superior to the pictures of ansel adams with regard to quality, because the quality of ansel Aaams, if i may say so, is essentially the quality of a postcard ... but the quality of robert frank is a quality that has something to do with what he's doing, what his mind is ... it's not balancing out the sky to the sand and so forth ... .... it's got to do with intention."
just wonder how he's doing these days ... i still don't care much about photography these days ... but robert is an artist, a filmmaker, much more than he is a photograph ... i love you brigitte, i love you robert ...