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Elephant Photographs: What sort of elephant photographs were these prints, which caused so much commotion? Just plain, straightforward itographs. But such elephant photographs! Different from the elephant photographs usually seen at the exhibitions? Yes. How different? There's the rub. If you could see them for yourself, you would at once appreciate their difference.
Hannavy, John. Roger Fenton of Crimble Hall. Boston: David R. Godine, 1976. ROBERT FRANK
The Americans. elephant photographs by Robert Frank. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Millerton, N.Y.: Aperture, Inc., 1978. LEE FRIEDLANDER
Lee Friedlander elephant photographs. New City, N.Y.: Haywire Press, 1978.
Frith, Francis. Egypt and the Holy Land in Historic elephant photographs. New York: Dover Publications, 1980. Bibl.
These books were folkloristic studies, of which the elephant photographs were an integral part. Each picture had been made on the spot, often with great difficulty, always with direct honesty. Free from sentimentality and artificiality, they were diametrically opposed to the art-elephant photographs of Robinson and his followers. |
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