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Robert Frank's Unsentimental Journey by Charlie LeDuff
Frank is old now.
At 83 he has reached that age when a man does not have to apologize for his cruelties, his eccentricities, or his grooming habits.
His prints have sold for more than a half-million dollars, but he shambles around looking like a Bowery bum.
He has by turns been described by people who do not know him as ornery, reclusive, hard, manipulative to the point of destructive, and cold as a bowling ball.
He rarely gives interviews.
He speaks in short, elliptical snatches and views life with the detached outlook of an undertaker.
He came to China to have a look before he dies.
"To travel the road of possibilities," he said.
"Turn on a whole new audience."
Charlie LeDuff
