Decisive Moment Robert Frank Analysis

Introduction
Robert Frank, who has been called as one of the most important photographer in twentieth century for more than forty years (A. Powell, 2009), it is a special performance of photography history in twentieth century. His book caused the new trend of photography after World War II: more sincere and more individual. Also, Robert Frank present a new way of photography that is "The non decisive moment", this theory is against "The decisive moment" of Henri Cartier-Bresson, which gave a brand new approach for other photographers (S. Greenough, 2009). When just published, there are query and vituperation everywhere. Some people who believe technique is decisive element think that Robert Frank’s picture not qualified yet in technically;
In , Robert Frank takes “everyone” in the book as a whole object in his subject. Therefore, Robert Frank put himself in the opposite of the whole object in order to accept the judgment of his object, or in other words, “the Americans”. At the time of the United States, this behavior is absolutely dangerous and arrogant especially he is a Switzerland and he just arrived to America eleven years. However, this sudden sense is necessary. If Robert Frank changes the name from to , it might look narrower, people may see the book as a personal view not reflection of all people. Some might do not know or Robert Frank. This is an indispensible dramatic conflict in an important event that is the conflict of individual point of view and social consensus. For example, in present China, some documentary photographer such as Guang Lu (Figure1), his work won the third prize in long-term object of World Press Photo 2015. However, Guang Lu is bringing the strong personal view when he taking photos of some events that he thought wrong or something people feel angry. These strong points of view are easily brought into his photos; therefore viewers would consider that these images are too strongly oriented. For this reason, works of Guang Lu has strong controversy in China. On the other hand, another Chinese documentary photographer Dengke Hou, he took over 43,000 films in his life. His
The whole society seems thriving however if people cannot discover these problems in time, this society could turn to the negative side. Although China is still constantly developing, economy remains one of the most dynamic on Earth, the businesses the most innovative and the infrastructure construction is also popular; the solicitude for civil realm of spirit seems to have been no attention. The dissatisfaction from citizen to the government is increasingly aggravated. On the one hand, the vested interest in social or in the circle are enjoying benefits of various policies, they have a glamorous life. On the other hand, some that cannot enjoy these benefits are distribute their grievances. However, they seem to be very yearning to enter a circle like that. The value of the whole society seems to have some deviation. To contrast with , if some photographer would like to launch a similar photography project, they could choose some particularly elements as the Chinese characteristics, for example, traditional Chinese street, Asian face, Chinese food, national flag and others. Thus, in this respect one can see that Robert Frank has various experiences for his choice of source material. The reason is that these elements all have similarity, but it is different in every country. The viewers can separate different country by