"It is a young person's revolution, and we can only hope that it will not be stolen, somehow, by an older generation or a newer Mubarak.
The tag line for Andrea's Americana harkens back to Gil Scott-Heron's famous declaration, 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.' Indeed, the Revolution won't be found on any screen, because each person's true revolution cannot be broadcast; it must be lived.
For every person in this revolution there is no turning back.
In 2003, Steinmetz travelled to Iran — the first person since the revolution, he thinks, to be granted permission to take photographs there from a private aircraft.
"We do not yet have justice, equal and practical, for the poor, for the members of minority groups, for the criminally accused, for the displaced persons of the technological revolution, for alienated youth, for the urban masses... Ugly inequities continue to mar the face of the nation.
"But you know, in every revolution one person has to stand up to be counted, then other people follow.
Francis was a good example of what, in the annals of history, might be called the "inconvenient elder": the person who starts the revolution and then, once it succeeds, becomes an inconvenience, even an embarrassment, to the next generation.
My father was this person, he saw this revolution and he was moved by it, and he refused to set up a life for himself in any serious way.
It takes one person to start a revolution but far more to carry it out.
Although more of an observer than a person politically involved in the revolution, he went with his family, in November 1906, to live in Dresden.
