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Brian Graham’s shot of his friends in a Woodstock cabin in 1988 encapsulates romantic notions of the ​creative lifeBrian Graham took this picture of two artists – Raoul Hague and Robert Frank – at Hague’s cabin on Old Maverick Road in Woodstock, New York, in 1988. Hague, an abstract sculptor working mainly in wood, was a friend and mentor to Frank, whose 1958 coast to coast journey, The Americans, had been a landmark in documentary photography. The picture is included in Graham’s new book, Goin’ Down the Road With Robert Frank, about the photographer. Frank died in 2019 aged 94.Graham’s memoir is a personal homage to Frank’s influence and an intimate pictorial history of his later years. Graham met the older photographer in the late 1970s when he had spent a couple of years working on oil rigs and was looking for a change of life. Frank bought him a camera and some film and subsequently worked with him for a decade “in and out of the darkroom”.Goin’ Down the Road With Robert Frank is published by Steidl Continue reading...