"Beaufort, South Carolina, 1955" (detail) by Robert Frank
[Taken by me at the MOCA in Downtown Los Angeles in September. I had permission. Sadly, the images from "The Americans" series were very poorly lit, not like the same images I saw in August, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. There, they were exquisitely lit. This, and others in the series are perfect photographs: The woman's radiant face, the sun behind her, the light pole that echos the Cross. Perfect. Other memories from MOCA: LA that day, were a class of tweens taking a tour of the museum and having their teacher or a docent tell them that the poorly-crafted, arrogant, nightmares-on-a-wall they were seeing, were actually good paintings. The look on the kids' faces was priceless. Remember, it was a child who told the townspeople that the Emperor had no clothes on. Sadly, the schoolkids weren't in the room with "The Americans." I bet they would have looks of awe on their faces, not wrinkled-up noses. Hopefully they got to see them before they left.]
"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." - Robert Frank.
Beaufort is located on the island of Port Royal in the heart of the sea and islands Low-country. The city is known for its idyllic setting and maintaining a historical figure through his pre-war architecture impressive. The city is also renowned for its military installations near Parris Island and U.S. Naval Hospital, as well as being home to the Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort.
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