andrew_lee2 Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 Thought this might be of interest to some people, I thought it was pretty remarkable myself. Michal Daniel over at the streetphoto forum got a picture of <a href="http://www.proofsheet.com/rf/source/161_6144.htm" >Robert Frank</a> today... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay bee Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 Very cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie_cheung Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 >>>how much i wanted then to have a show, have these photographs reproduced, hoped that the magazines would publish them. in due time all this has happened. but that wasn't IT either. young people and students picked up THE AMERICANS. they recognized and understood my language. they listened to voices that had no part in the "SYSTEM." aware of hipocrisy around them, dissatisfied with slogans from preachers and patriots, they began to question everything. THE AMERICANS became for many an affirmation of what they felt about their country...that's what i cherish the most.<<< ---robert frank--- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roberto_watson_garc_a Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 ...a man I admire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicholas_t. Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Hard to imagine the TIME and the PLACE ('The Americans' (the book)) - for me. But I have to give maximum *props* to the guy.<p/> He is an elder, here to give advice and teach to those who resonate, why not access this if within (and able to...) his vicinity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen_jones4 Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Andrew - Thanks for this, it's appreciated. Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_r._fulton_jr. Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Very nice picture!! Good to see him carrying those 16X20 boxes. Wouldn't you love to see what's in them? [i don't know why I notice this stuff--sorry--but Robert Frank, a man with two first names photographed by Michael Daniel, a man with two first names.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowhereman Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 "Hard to imagine the TIME and the PLACE ('The Americans' (the book)) - for me. But I have to give maximum *props* to the guy. He is an elder, here to give advice and teach to those who resonate, why not access this if within (and able to...) his vicinity?" Would someone care to translate the above into English? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 "Hard to imagine the TIME and the PLACE ('The Americans' (the book)) -for me. But I have to give maximum *props* to the guy. He is an elder, here to give advice and teach to those who resonate, why not access this if within (and able to...) his vicinity?" Nicholas Let me try to figure it out since I think I may share Nicholas' sentiment: Nicholas is too young to have experienced what The Americans is all about, in time or place. I'm not sure what is meant by *props* but I think the last statement refers to the vast experiences Robert Frank has to share with us now if he would write them down or sit with interested persons and chat about what it was like at his peak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowhereman Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 I guess so, but I don't think that anyone can figuure out what "props" is supposed to mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cd thacker Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Great picture. (I take it this was taken in New York?) I agree, it would be interesting to see what's in those boxes.<P> <I>He is an elder, here to give advice and teach</I><P> I have the feeling he has been an elder since he was quite young - one of those who had to grow into himself. Some of the most helpful advice I've yet seen comes from him. He ends one of his books with the words, "Always keep an iron in the fire, brother." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew_lee2 Posted March 28, 2003 Author Share Posted March 28, 2003 Props = thanks, praise... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_cuttler Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 A few years ago the San Fransisco Museum of modern art had a Robert Frank in New York exibit. It was fantastic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowhereman Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 "Props = thanks, praise..." In what language -- seriously, is this regional slang; if so, from where? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markci Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 It's hip-hop slang. Props doesn't mean "thanks" exactly; it's shorthand for "proper respect." Giving props is pretty much the opposite of "dissing" (disrespecting). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowhereman Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 Ugh. I'm just reading Churchill's biography of Marlborough which is written in rich and expressive English; and it's depressing to see someone limiting himself to an inarticulate form of expression like the posting above which is not even representative of hip-hop, which is a type of poetry, some of it inventive and witty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_fleetwood Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 Props=propers. Can't you hear Aretha singing it? And don't dare ask who Aretha is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_fleetwood Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 The last remark was not directed at you, Mitch. "Props" pre-dates hip-hop, for all you youngsters out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmalever Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 Mitch, Although I am not a linguist by profession, I did spend quite a long time studying linguistics. I would like to know the basis for your statement. Why is one lexical element "richer" than another. There is nothing lacking in the expression, "props." To native speakers it conveys plenty. It probably connotes far more than many of the richer expressions cited above. Any judgements about its position in some sort of imagined hierarchy are simply political. Jonas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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