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Sep 10, 2019 · City of London, 1951 National Gallery of Art, Washington, Robert Frank Collection, Purchased as a Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of ...
Sep 12, 2019 · One of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, Robert Frank possessed a piercing, unflinching gaze. Some of America's top photojournalists share their thoughts on Frank and his work.
Robert Frank began studying photography in 1941 and spent the next six years working for commercial photography and graphic design studios in Zurich, Geneva, and Basel. In 1947 he traveled to the United States, where Alexey Brodovitch hired him to make fashion photographs at Harper's Bazaar. Although a few magazines accepted Frank's ...
Jun 12, 2020 · 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 outsider, a Swiss who ...
The Robert Frank Collection. The Americans, 1955–1957. In October of 1958, French publisher Robert Delpire released Les Américains in Paris. The following year Grove Press published The Americans in New York with an introduction by Jack Kerouac (the book was released in January 1960). Like Frank's earlier books, the sequence of 83 pictures ...
Jul 2, 2015 · Last May, Robert Frank, the world’s pre-eminent living photographer, returned to Zurich, the orderly Swiss banking city, cosseted by lake and mountain, where he grew up. When an artist who made ...
Robert Frank was born in Switzerland in 1924. He traveled the world before he finally settled in New York in 1947. His first photographic work was in fashion photography with Harper’s Bazaar. However, the work was only temporary, as Frank began to formulate his ideas about art, life and photography. America was in the midst of a dramatic ...
