Les Americains revisited

Robert Frank's Les Americains was on display at MOCA last summer, each photo from his monumental book laid out in the order he painstakingly decided on, paired on the walls as the pages were in the book. It was a real treat. I went twice.

Inspired by Frank, English photographer Jacob Perlmutter set off on his own American journey last summer. Like Frank, he traveled for three months. Perlmutter’s 88 Dayscaptures the spirit of the voyage and the people he encountered.

Perlmutter draws influence from a range of street photographers, but primarily works from a desire to dig beneath the coating of popular culture, to get to the essence of his subject. In the end of his American trip, he’d amassed 2,500 photos. These differed, he says, from the preconceived ideas he arrived with.

88 Days will be shown at The Orange Dot from April 19 to May 14, 2010, located at 54 Tavistock Place, Bloomsbury, London. Complimenting the exhibition, The Orange Dot will also offer a special edition 60-page 88 Days book.

I hope the exhibit finds its way to LA.

via curated mag