Robert Frank is the artist i chose for the rephotography artist critique, I find his interest in diversity and the focus on socioeconomic classes of the timeframe intriguing and how much has changed since his shutter captured these images. This photograph exemplifies America of the era, showing disheveled people in a daily, bustle people of color obviously separated. A reflection of American culture and powerful forceful text making people dive deeper into the meaning. I think and it looks as though the text is written on the bus but also may have been added later, i like to think the text was on the bus originally. It wouldn't be hard to reshoot this photo, maybe on a city bus looking out over Mercedes in traffic. When everyone thinks of a car as a necessity it is the impoverished that are separated by a bus now. I feel nothing really changes, just shifts to meet the needs of the masses. A series about the Americas now would be interesting, I know of one photographer who did a walk across America but it seemed to me his work focused on middle America and the walls people build around them, normally not pretty. Same concept though, showing America the Americans.
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