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Roberta Smith has written an incredible essay in last Sunday's New York Times about a new exhibit of photographs of the Anne Frank family in pre-war Frankfurt and Amsterdam.
. . .In another image from 1941 Anne leans over the balcony of their modern Dutch apartment, looking back at Otto with the city behind her. One of the few photographs in the show that are not spatially intimate and contained, it shows her in effect dangling before a vortex of deep space. It captures an incipient wildness that glimmers from only a few images, the dark circles speaking of her worried acuity. Once more the future speaks to us: Anne is pictured as if moving toward her final destination, far beyond Otto's loving protection.
