Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel

It sucks.

4.0

|2017|10 min

The 94-year-old Robert Frank’s unique recordings of his fellow artists Harry Smith and Allen Ginsberg, which he had salvaged from his own archive for Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel.

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