A monograph signed by Brian Graham offers an unusual and melancholic approach to the daily life of the famous Swiss photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank.Goin' Down the Road is the title of a Canadian movie directed by Donald Shebib. Released in 1970, the film was very popular with Frank, who settled in Nova Scotia with his second wife, the sculptor June Leaf, where he alternated his stays in New York with a country life.
"Robert helped me defeat the devil with Polaroid Type 665 positive/negative film. The boss helped me," Frank said, "I'm a big fan of Polaroid's." "He liked my story about growing up in Glace Bay, Canada, 1951. He listened to me and said, "Obviously, you have to go back there and photograph where you come from." Frank Graham was a Swiss photographer who moved to the U.S. in the early 1980s. He met Allen Ginsberg, who at that time was photographing those close to him non-stop, accompanying the images with elaborate handwritten captions. "What is sex like in Nova Scotia?" was the first thing the poet asked the young Canadian before giving him a plastic bag full of reels to make the contacts. The film that he co-directed with Rudy Wurlitzer tells the story of a guitarist whose road trip takes place among marginal characters, among them those played by Joe Strummer, Arto Lindsay, and Tom Waits, whom he portrayed during the recording and for the back cover of his first album, Rain Dogs. 'Our perception of the reality of the past, if detached from visual images and records, would be illusory,' warns Ai Weiwei, who was inspired by Frank Graham's work.