frank's frisco (np)

[Erik T. Burns]

interestingly, the picture of SF in this NYT report:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/23/world/coronavirus-great-empty.html
seems to be taken in the same (or a very similar) location, from a
different angle, as the Robert Frank picture discussed in the essay. of
course, no people.



On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 4:14 PM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> that's a wonderful essay, thanks for posting it.
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 3:47 PM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Michael,
>>
>>  It’s quite another [thing] to feel, from the inside as it were, what it
>> was like to live in a world where this sort of picture didn’t exist, or
>> anyway wasn’t canonical, and then to feel what it was like to have it
>> suddenly appear.
>>
>> that and this: https://yalereview.yale.edu/san-francisco-1956
>>
>> to let you know I'm back in one piece finally, as it were, and let the
>> list
>> know what I found in my inbox and found irresistible to send around. (For
>> moving pictures a late example for that kind of thing would be the kind of
>> cutting the director of The Wild Bunch was forced to use: any film buff
>> born after say 1965 would have a similar problem.)
>>
>> Hopefully coming back soon,
>>
>> Jochen
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>