Saturday, February 14, 2009

research for mon 16 feb


The assignment for next week is to look at 2 projects in detail and familiarise yourself with the other.
-William Klein - Life is Good and Good for you in New York
copy on temp reserve (careful with it please!)
-Robert Frank - The Americans
ditto - also read Kerouac's short intro
I addition read Chapters 17 and 18 of Bystander, which deal with Klein and Frank respectively
-And take a look at programme 4 in the Genius of Photography (dvd copy from Alice) which features William Klein extensively

-In addition please look at Helen Levitt, A Way of Seeing, and read the introduction by James Agee (mate of both her and Walker Evans-writer of 'let use now praise famous men')
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