Portraits

Barry Kornbluh

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Portraits

Always distrustful of magazines, museums, respectability and success, Frank was also notorious for turning away the press. Regardless, I lived only minutes away from his New York City loft, and I too wanted to meet and photograph him. After phones calls, faxes and a chance meeting on a New York City subway platform, Robert Frank agreed to a portrait session.

This portrait of Calliope Tsoupaki was originally done for Elle. The art director looked at the prints and chose this photo. He said "Too bad the women upstairs won't go for it." (He was referring to the editors whose position was above his.) And in the end they chose a safer, more ELLE-like image. The art director left the magazine soon afterwords.

LITERATURE (USA)

Derek Walcott + Madison Smart Bell + Jerzy Kosinski + Tama Janovitz + Jay McInerney + Ernst Pawel + Naomi Wolf + Stanley Crouch + Edmund Wolf + Albert Murray

ARTS general (USA)

Robert Frank + Eugene Richards + Elizabeth Murray + Milton Glazer + Walter Bernard + Richard Hell

ARTS/POLITICS (Great Britain)

Ian McEwan + Robert Fripp + Brian Urquhart -diplomacy

POLITICS

Alarcon de Quesada (Cuba)

ARTS AND CULTURE(The Netherlands)

Dick Bruna + Rineke Dijkstra + Paul van Vliet + Eddy de Clercq + Anil Ramdas + Yerli Nilgun + Willem Nijholt + Paul Haenen + Armando + Pierre Courbois + Koos van den Akker + Calliope Tsoupaki

LITERATURE(The Netherlands)

Lulu Wang + Jean Pierre Rawie + Leo Vroman + Rogi Wieg + Willem Melchior + Ed Leeflang + Nel Benschop + Bennie Roeters + Dola de Jong

MEDIA(The Netherlands)

Willibrord Frequin + Fons de Poel + Martin Simek + Drs. P + Rudie Kagie + Jhim Lamoree + Carrie

POLITICS(The Netherlands)

Job Cohen + Jan Marijnessen + Gerrit Zalm + Hans Vermeend + Loek Hermans

GENERAL (The Netherlands)

A. van Danzig + Leo Stumpel + Annemieke Roobeek