“The Fire of Pain”
“The Fire of Pain”
Life Dances On …, Home Improvements, The Present
Chapter 4 considers how the formal strategies evident in the photographs Frank has produced since the publication of The Americans influence the storytelling structures and forms of address employed in the loose trilogy constituted by Life Dances On … , Home Improvements and The Present. In each of these works, Frank records the details of a world that is close at hand: a cup resting under a dripping faucet, flies crawling across a windowpane, dime-store souvenirs gathering dust on a windowsill. At the same time, he renders the presence of people and events that exist only through the processes of memory.
Keywords: Robert Frank, The Americans, Photography, Life Dances On…, Home Improvements, The Present, Memory, Storytelling, Film studies
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