“Exile On Main Street”   The Rolling Stones   Cover art design and photography by Robert Frank.   Frank’s, 1958 publication of The Americans, a book of photographs with an introduction by Jack Kerouac, changed modern photography.   In 1972, he directed “Cocksucker Blues,” an infamous, seldom-seen and much bootleged, cinema verite documentary of The Stones American Tour that year.   In conjunction with the Metropolitan Museum’s current Robert Frank exhibit of The Americans, I attended a screening of CB.   After years of having only a crappy VHS dupe, it was amazing to see the band misbehaving – and performing – on a clean print in the museum’s theater.   And how strange to see this notorious, dirty, “underground” movie being celebrated and analyzed at the Met, the bastion of high art.

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