Here's to the crazy ones...

"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as crazy, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. - Jack Kerouac

I recently saw the Robert Frank exhibit at SFMOMA, which was essentially an accident, because I was really there to see the Georgia O'Keefe and Ansel Adams exhibit with a friend. (NOTE: Georgia O'Keefe and Ansel Adams sooner make me feel like taking a nap than provide any inspiration for me, but, like I said, I was there with a friend.)

I was unfamiliar with Robert Frank at the time, although I did recognize some of his photography. I was instantly enticed by the premise of his controversial project, The Americans. Frank had embarked on a journey across the country to capture images of real America life, all the rawness of it behind the facade - the poverty, the racial divide, the vast disparity between social classes. While that era was so engrossed with the likes of Norman Rockwell's America, with his rosey-cheeked children and idyllic family images, Frank was a rebel with his portrayal of the 'real' American life. I appreciate the rebels and misfits in history, as I think they are the truth-tellers; the ones who refuse to delude themselves or accept the status quo, but rather seek out the gritty reality and expose it for what it is.