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"Store window - Washington, DC"
[59: Mindlessness (headless) in politics]
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"Television studio - Burbank, California"
[60: Mindlessness in media]
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"Los Angelos"
[61: The mindless citizen: following directions (go right)]
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"Bank - Houston, Texas"
[62: Work after hours (virtue): seat surplus]
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"Factory - Detroit"
[63: Rest during work (vice): no seats]
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"Department store - Lincoln, Nebraska"
[64: Another vice: aberrant positions]
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"Rodeo - New York City"
[65: Another vice: Dodge city pickup]
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"Movie premiere - Hollywood"
[66: Virtue: adoration]
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"Charity Ball - New York City"
[67: Virtue: Charity balling (food 1)]
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"Cafeteria - San Fransisco"
[68: The charity recipient (food 2)]
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"Drug store - Detroit"
[69: Food 3: America whipped:
"You can't have your cake and eat it too"]
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It was initially easier to find French concordances
than
English.
It took a while before I caught this one; then I rolled on the floor,
laughing.
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"Coffee shop, railway station - Indianapolis"
[70: Introducing the vindication: First turnaround (food 4)]
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"Chattanooga, Tennessee"
[71: Second turnaround, the young advance, etc (couples, etc)]
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"San Fransisco"
[72: Turaround 3: Lone black tree in a white landscape,
starts the "trees like people" series]
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"Belle Isle, Detroit"
[Prelude to meeting 1: woman with boy on arm (fertile tree)]
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"Public park - Cleveland, Ohio"
[74: Prelude 2: man with girl on arm (sleeping tree)]
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"Courthouse square - Elizabethville, North Carolina"
[75: Prelude 3: Her (old gnarly tree, etc)]
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"Picnic ground - Glendale, California"
[76: Prelude 4: Him (bent tree)]
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"Belle Isle, Detroit"
[77: Prelude 5: On a collision course 1]
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"Detroit"
[78: Prelude 6: Collision course 2]
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"Chicago"
[79: The collision: somebody died]
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This winds up a series of images which talk to each other in pairs. The question remains, "What is the sin." Frank answers presently. Compare this (as with the couples in the previous set) with the windup of The Family of Man.
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"Public park - Ann Arbor, Michigan"
[80: The sin is lust (park, parked, parking)]
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"City Hall - Reno, Nevada"
[81: Lust 2: legal (She's up front) (hydraulic model in background)]
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"Indianapolis"
[82: Lust 3: extralegal (She's behind)]
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"US 90, en route to Del Rio, Texas"
[83: Walking into the Light]
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It is actually Mary Frank and the children, with their daughter turned away. The bizarre angle, and the headlight bothered me for a long time. One day I suddenly realized that "Walking into the light" would be a simple title -- a pun on Eugene Smith's much touted photograph which closes Steigen's book, and the cap to the question of a source structure for The Americans. Smith's official title was "Walk into Paradise Garden," but most New York photographers, out of sheer desperation for having seen it published and described endlessly by Smith, called it, "Shooting into the light," which is the exposure condition.
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There has been an edition of The Americans every ten years. After Frank's daughter died in a plane crash in Central America, three frames, which include the previous photograph, were added to the book.