With brilliant insight and economy, Frank revealed a country that many knew existed but few had acknowledged. He showed a culture deeply riddled by racism, alienation, and isolation, one with little civility and much violence. He depicted a society numbed by a seemingly endless array of consumer goods that promised many choices but offered no real satisfaction, and he revealed a people emasculated by politicians who were fatuous and distant at best, messianic at worst.
—Introduction to Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
by Susan Greenough, Senior Curator of Photographs
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Robert Frank taught many of us how to see. One of his disciples is photographer Bill Dane. Bill has a 50 year collection coming out soon by KOPA press. He has been fascinated for a long time by the endless ways to communicate through photography. See Bill’s instagram account or billdane.com on the internet.
Bill Dane’s photographs of found images (ephemera, long-gone advertisements, store window displays) explore mostly American cultural subtext and narratives hidden in plain sight.
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