AMS 310 Study Guide - Final Guide: Absalom, Absalom!, Heman Marion Sweatt, Pompeo Coppini
14 Aug 2016
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Description: an american photographer and filmaker who is most famous for the. With the aid of an influential aritist, walker evans, frank secured the presitgious guggenheim fellowship to pursue a wokr that encapsulated what if meant to be american. He began to travel the country via roadtrip in 1955. Significance: his photographs of america became very controversial and sometimes enraged viewers. This was partly due to the lack of similarity between frank"s and. Walker evan"s photos, who was a major influence for him. However, the main reason was the prevalence of dichotomies in american culutre. Example: for example, frank took a picture of a black women holding a white child which represented racial tension and that racism is something that is learned from society. Other pictures highlighted the dichotomies of the rich and poor, native-born and immigrants, and cities and suburban areas: eugene smith. W. eugene smith: created stories of lives through photographs in life magazine and foregrounded important landscapes.
