From now through January 2010, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is exhibiting the 50th anniversary of Robert Frank's famed photo collection titled The Americans. Frank's black-and-white photos take a look at the American landscape during the mid-1950's. The subjects in the collection virtually ignore Frank's presence as he snaps away.
As an amateur-amateur photographer myself, I know that it is hard to get people to be comfortable while I take photos of them without their permission (the nerve). I wonder how we evolved into a species who is so afraid of each other and so protected of ourself image.
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