Tag: Robert Frank

  • The Sunday Read: ‘The Man Who Saw America’ – The New York Times

    The Sunday Read: ‘The Man Who Saw America’ – The New York Times

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    The Sunday Read: ‘The Man Who Saw America’ Chronicling the human condition with one of the most influential photographers in history. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/podcasts/the-daily/robert-frank-photographer.html Chronicling the human condition with one of the most influential photographers in history

  • A Portrait of America That Still Haunts, Decades Later – The New York Times

    A Portrait of America That Still Haunts, Decades Later – The New York Times

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    A Portrait of America That Still Haunts, Decades Later How, in a single photograph, Robert Frank captured the ongoing story of a divided nation. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/12/arts/design/robert-frank-americans.html Robert Frank chose this image for the cover of his eye-opening book of 83 photographs, “The Americans,” published in 1959. He had crossed America by car, seeing it as…

  • An Inifinite Influence: Robert Frank & The Creation Of Photography « The Spinning Head

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    Link: Robert Frank’s The Americans may actually be the only book that can safely claim to have influenced the work and inspirations of most any photographer, documentarian and photojournalist born and working since the 1950s. There isn’t a Most Influential Photographers Of The Century list that will not list Frank’s name. This is truly one…

  • See the First Trailer for the Robert Frank Documentary, Don’t Blink | American Photo

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    Link: The Laura Israel-directed Don’t Blink made its world premier last fall during the New York Film Festival and according to our reviewer Judy Gelman Myers, the documentary offers a multifaceted view of the photographer so well known for The Americans. “This is Robert Frank the funny guy, the experimental filmmaker, the fan of the…

  • Robert Frank Dies; Pivotal Documentary Photographer Was 94 – The New York Times

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    Robert Frank Dies; Pivotal Documentary Photographer Was 94 (Published 2019) Mr. Frank, best known for his groundbreaking book, “The Americans,” had a visually raw and personally expressive style that made him one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/arts/robert-frank-dead-americans-photography.html Mr. Frank’s visually raw and personally expressive style made him one of…

  • Wanting to See Like Robert Frank | The New Yorker

    Wanting to See Like Robert Frank | The New Yorker

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    Wanting to See Like Robert Frank Embracing the work of the photographer, who died on Monday, at age ninety-four, meant that you, too, could abide a certain amount of ambiguity. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/wanting-to-see-like-robert-frank The photographer Robert Frank died on Monday, on Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia. He was ninety-four. Frank’s pictures were…

  • The Shock of Robert Frank’s “The Americans” | The New Yorker

    The Shock of Robert Frank’s “The Americans” | The New Yorker

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    The Shock of Robert Frank’s “The Americans” The photographer, who died on Monday, captured bleedingly raw images of postwar America. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-shock-of-robert-franks-the-americans It may be impossible to convey to people who weren’t percipient in the early nineteen-sixties the profound, exulting shock that Robert Frank’s “The Americans” delivered to me, among many others,…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Robert Frank, One of the Most Influential Figures in the History of Photography, Dies at 94

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Robert Frank, One of the Most Influential Figures in the History of Photography, Dies at 94 Photographer Robert Frank, one of the most pivotal figures in history, has passed away at the age of 94. Frank’s 1958 book The Americans red… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/robert-frank-one-of-the-most-influencial-figures-in-the-history-of-photography-dies-at-94/ Photographer Robert Frank, one of the most pivotal figures in history,…

  • How Robert Frank’s Photographs Helped Define America | The New Yorker

    How Robert Frank’s Photographs Helped Define America | The New Yorker

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    How Robert Frank’s Photographs Helped Define America The array of moments that Frank captured and presented is a statement on the broad, unwieldy idea on which the nation is premised. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/how-robert-franks-photographs-helped-define-america nation that is premised on an idea—not on an alleged shared bloodline or eons of history on common acreage—is prone…

  • Remembering Robert Frank, 1924-2019 – British Journal of Photography

    Remembering Robert Frank, 1924-2019 – British Journal of Photography

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    Remembering Robert Frank, 1924-2019 – 1854 Photography Robert Frank’s The Americans greatly influenced the course of 20th and 21st-century photography. His contemporaries, and those who followed, reflect on the enduring significance of his work via 1854 Photography: https://www.1854.photography/2019/09/remembering-robert-frank/ Robert Frank’s The Americans greatly influenced the course of 20th and 21st-century photography. His contemporaries, and those…

  • The America of Robert Frank

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    The America of Robert Frank Danziger Gallery presents an exhibition devoted to Robert Frank  American photographs, his best known and arguably most important work. The exhibition will be comprised of 40 photographs – 15 from Frank’s seminal book “The Americans” (now celebrating the 60th anniversary of its American publication) and 25 unpublished works from Frank’s travels…

  • Robert Frank 1924-2019 – The Photo Society

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    [contentcards url=”http://thephotosociety.org/robert-frank-1925-2019/”] Robert Frank 1924-2019 – The Photo Society Robert Frank died today. As Sean O’Hagan wrote for The Guardian “it is impossible to imagine photography’s recent past and overwhelmingly confusing present without (Robert Frank’s) lingeringly pervasive presence. Frank was 31 in 1955 when he secured the Guggenheim Grant… He shot around 28,000 pictures. When…

  • The Unseen Robert Frank: Outtakes From ‘The Americans’ – The New York Times

    The Unseen Robert Frank: Outtakes From ‘The Americans’ – The New York Times

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    The Unseen Robert Frank: Outtakes From ‘The Americans’ Thousands of Robert Frank’s unpublished photographs taken during and after his journeys that led to “The Americans” have never been seen before by wide audiences. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/lens/robert-frank-the-americans-danziger-gallery.html Only 83 of the nearly 28,000 photographs Mr. Frank made during his journeys appeared in the book, which was published…

  • Robert Frank on Photographing The Americans

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    Robert Frank on Photographing The Americans Watch a rare interview with famed photographer Robert Frank as he discusses his seminal book of photography, The Americans. via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/12/robert-frank-interview-on-photographing-the-americans.html To create the work, Frank shot around 27,000 images across the U.S.–a series that was ultimately whittled down to 83 black-and-white photographs.

  • Robert Frank, Valuing the Image Over the Object – The New York Times

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    Robert Frank, Valuing the Image Over the Object When the current Robert Frank exhibit at New York University closes next week, it’s really closing: The images will be handed over to photo students who will, in a private ceremony, draw on them or sculpt them into some creation of their choosing. Then they will destroy…

  • Robert Frank on a Vanished Friend and Collaborator – The New York Times

    Robert Frank on a Vanished Friend and Collaborator – The New York Times

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    Robert Frank on a Vanished Friend and Collaborator In some of the only footage available of the reclusive photographer, Frank talks about losing a friend, the photographer Danny Seymour. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/magazine/robert-frank-on-a-vanished-friend-and-collaborator.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Over the next 50 years, Frank made many films, but perhaps his most notable was a documentary few have ever seen. “[expletive] Blues” got…

  • The Man Who Saw America – The New York Times

    The Man Who Saw America – The New York Times

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    The Man Who Saw America Looking back with Robert Frank, the most influential photographer alive. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/magazine/robert-franks-america.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Looking back with Robert Frank, the most influential photographer alive

  • ‘Americans’: The Book That Changed Photography

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    ‘Americans’: The Book That Changed Photography In 1959, Robert Frank’s The Americans dramatically altered how photographers looked through viewfinders and how Americans saw themselves. via NPR.org: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100688154 During his trip, Frank shot 767 rolls of film yielding about 27,000 images. He edited that down to about 1,000 work prints, spread them across the floor of…

  • INTERVIEW: Robert Frank – “If An Artist Doesn’t Take Risks, Then It’s Not Worth It.” (2007)

    INTERVIEW: Robert Frank – “If An Artist Doesn’t Take Risks, Then It’s Not Worth It.” (2007)

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    An Interview with Robert Frank – “If An Artist Doesn’t Take Risks, Then It’s Not Worth It.” (2007) An Exclusive Interview with Robert Frank, Robert Frank’s Studio, New York, July 22, 2007 via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/12/interview-robert-frank-if-an-artist-doesnt-take-risks-then-its-not-worth-it-2007.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americansuburb+%28ASX+%7C+AMERICAN+SUBURB+X+%7C+Photography+%26+Culture You are free and you risk something by taking a photograph. It’s not taking a snapshot of your…

  • "The photographer was a guy named Robert Frank" – BJP

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    Joel Meyerowitz speaks of his first days as a street photographer, when he worked with Robert Frank 50 years ago Link: “The photographer was a guy named Robert Frank” – British Journal of Photography