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拍品专文
left to right; 'New Mexico'; 'On the Road Carolina'; 'New Mexico from 1955'.
Like most Europeans growing up in the 1930s Robert Frank had formed images of what Americans looked like from watching Hollywood movies. When he traveled across the US in 1955 and 1956 on a Guggenheim Fellowship, instead of sharply dressed gangsters in the East, he found overweight disheveled pump attendants. In place of cowboy gunslingers on the high plains of New Mexico, he found wiry young men quick on the draw with their gas nozzles. These new 'cowboys' must have looked as exotic to Frank then as they do to us today after more than three decades of the self-service gas station.
Like most Europeans growing up in the 1930s Robert Frank had formed images of what Americans looked like from watching Hollywood movies. When he traveled across the US in 1955 and 1956 on a Guggenheim Fellowship, instead of sharply dressed gangsters in the East, he found overweight disheveled pump attendants. In place of cowboy gunslingers on the high plains of New Mexico, he found wiry young men quick on the draw with their gas nozzles. These new 'cowboys' must have looked as exotic to Frank then as they do to us today after more than three decades of the self-service gas station.