{"id":22239,"date":"2013-11-09T06:49:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T13:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=22239"},"modified":"2019-09-10T08:53:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T15:53:47","slug":"robert-frank-20-years-in-mabou-nova-scotia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2013\/11\/09\/robert-frank-20-years-in-mabou-nova-scotia\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Frank – 20 Years in Mabou, Nova Scotia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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‘mabou’ (words, nova scotia)<\/p>\n

Andrea Mabou \"\"<\/a>
\nLooking again at Robert Frank<\/a><\/p>\n

Robert Frank -Sunday Salon Utata.org <\/a><\/p>\n

In 1971 Frank bought an old fisherman\u2019s shack in Mabou, Nova Scotia on Cape Breton Island. He began to divide his time between there and his loft in New York City. He took up his Leicas and bought a cheap Polaroid, and returned to still photography. The photographs he began to shoot in Mabou were, at first, relatively simple in composition, but they were significantly more introspective and personal than anything he\u2019d done before. His earlier work was all about the external world; his new work was deeply internal. It was less about others and more about himself. It\u2019s as if Frank began for the first time to use photography as a mode of personal expression. The photographs retain the air of melancholy that marked his more famous work, but the melancholy grew out of the style of the work\u2014out of the photographer, it could be said\u2014rather than from the subject matter.
\nSome of that grew out of his personal life. Frank\u2019s son Pablo was diagnosed with schizophrenia in the early 1970s, and eventually he required hospitalization. In 1974 Frank\u2019s daughter Andrea died in an airplane crash in Guatemala. These personal tragedies clearly began to shape Frank\u2019s work. It became more volatile and almost painfully personal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Fire Below Mabou January 1980 \"\"<\/a>
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    Paris photos (youtube<\/a>) <\/p>\n

    The Americans <\/a><\/p>\n

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    Robert Frank \"\"<\/a>
    \nand his wife June Leaf. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe
    \n    Shooting from the hip..<\/a><\/p>\n

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