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Looking at Sid Kaplan’s images is a rare experience. For although the eighty-two-year-old New York photographer still has a studio and dark room in the East Village, he has seen his career effectively hidden by the bulky legend of Mr. Frank, as Kaplan calls the man whose photographs he printed for thirty-five years.
So it was that Robert Frank (1924-2019), author of the 1958 book, The Americans, published in France by Robert Delpire, acted as the tree that hides the forest. And despite him declaring that, ‘Sid Kaplan is not only an excellent printer, but also a very great photographer who is …