Robert Frank: Quotes about people

Robert Frank was American photographer and filmmaker. Explore interesting quotes on people.

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“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”

“Black and white are the colors of photography. To me, they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. Most of my photographs are of people; they are seen simply, as through the eyes of the man in the street. There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough—there has to be vision and the two together can make a good photograph. It is difficult to describe this thin line where matter ends and mind begins.”

Robert Frank, in: Nathan Lyons, Photographers on photography: a critical anthology, (1966), p. 66

“People are my favourite subject because there are no two alike, so my work never becomes routine.”

Robert Frank interview in: Tom Ang (2010), The Complete Photographer https://books.google.nl/books?id=HX-Fcm6XP5UC&pg=PA43, p. 43