Tag: Robert Frank
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Detroit Experiences on Cool Hunting
Mid-century Motor City images from Robert Frank’s iconic American road trip Link: Detroit Experiences on Cool Hunting
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5B4: Robert Frank: 81 Contact Sheets
Robert Frank: 81 Contact Sheets A couple years ago I had heard rumored that the eccentric Japanese publisher Kazuhiko Motomura was working on a special “book” on Robert F… Link: http://5b4.blogspot.com/2010/03/robert-frank-81-contact-sheets.html A couple years ago I had heard rumored that the eccentric Japanese publisher Kazuhiko Motomura was working on a special “book” on Robert Frank’s…
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Must See: Last Days for ‘The Americans’ – Lens
Must See: Last Days for ‘The Americans’ The five-exposure contact strip of 35-millimeter Kodak Plus-X film begins unremarkably enough. But don’t miss Frame 16. And don’t miss this show. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/must-32/ The five-exposure contact strip of 35-millimeter Kodak Plus-X film begins unremarkably enough. Frame 12: Helmeted policemen gather around a motorcycle. Frame 13:…
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5B4: Portfolio: 40 Photos 1941/1946 by Robert Frank
Portfolio: 40 Photos 1941/1946 by Robert Frank Before arriving to New York, Robert Frank prepared a portfolio of 40 photographs in order to introduce his work to magazine editors. Upon … Link: http://5b4.blogspot.com/2009/12/portfolio-40-photos-19411946-by-robert.html Before arriving to New York, Robert Frank prepared a portfolio of 40 photographs in order to introduce his work to magazine editors
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Robert Frank's The Americans still shocks, 50 years on
Robert Frank’s The Americans still shocks, 50 years on A detailed exhibition currently at the New York Met reveals the extraordinary power of the photographer’s eye, finds Sean O’Hagan via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/nov/30/robert-frank-the-americans-exhibition First published in France in 1958 and – to considerable controversy – in America the following year, The Americans remains one of…
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Robert Frank Outtakes
Boing Boing says: There’s a great show at the SFMOMA now, showing all 84 prints from Robert Frank’s classic mid-1950s photo book The Americans, along with some outtakes, such as the image shown above—which is not in the book.
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We're Just Sayin: Robert Frank at the National
photo by David Burnett From We’re Just Sayin: Frank at the National: We photographers all wish we could get someone to just pay us to wander and shoot great pictures. Check it out here.
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Review: Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans by Sarah Greenough et al. (Conscientious)
In a sense, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans is another expression of the status of the work. If you want to find out about its photographer and history (and a lot of other things) this is where you want to look. Check it out here.
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'Americans': The Book That Changed Photography
The Americans showed a different America than the wholesome, nonconfrontational photo essays offered in some popular magazines. Robert Frank’s subjects weren’t necessarily living the American dream of the 1950s: They were factory workers in Detroit, transvestites in New York, black passengers on a segregated trolley in New Orleans. Frank didn’t even get much support from…
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Revisiting Robert Frank's The Americans. – By Fred Kaplan – Slate Magazine
How a Swiss émigré’s cross-country road trip changed photography. Check it out here.
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The Online Photographer: 'The Americans' is Reprinted at 50
Today, May 15th, is the 50th anniversary of the day Robert Frank’s The Americans was first published by Robert Delpire in Paris. That was 1958. Today we realize that The Americans has more in common with beat poetry and club jazz than it has with many other kinds of photography; it’s one of the high…
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Robert Frank's Unsentimental Journey: vanityfair.com
Digital photography destroys memory, he believes, with its ability to erase. Art school is another problem, teaching students to be blind. Editors are worse—they poke the artist’s eyes out. Photography: one minute it’s not art at all. Then perhaps it is. And then again it is not. That’s Robert Frank. “There are too many images,”…
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5B4: The Americans by Robert Frank 50th Anniversary
It is rare for a photographer that came of age in the 1960’s and 70’s to not cite Robert Frank’s The Americans and Walker Evans’ American Photographs as the two books that inspired them to take up a camera and explore the world. It is lore that gets repeated so often it almost seems disingenuous…