Robert Frank
Robert Frank ( born November 9, 1924 in Zurich, Switzerland ) is a Swiss- American photographer, film director and cinematographer.
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Life
Robert Frank was born in 1924 as the son of interior designer Hermann Frank from Frankfurt and the Swiss Pink sugar from Basel. The have become stateless because of his Jewish origin by the Reich Citizenship Law father applied for in 1941 for his sons Swiss citizenship, Robert Frank, but only in 1945 was awarded. He attended from 1931 to 1937 the Gabler School From 1937 to 1940, Lavater High School in Zurich. In 1940 he studied French at the Institut Jomini in Payerne, from January 1941 to March 1942, he completed a free education with the photographer and graphic designer Hermann Segesser in Zurich. From August 1942 to September 1944, he was first an apprentice, then an employee at the studio of Michael Wolgensinger in Zurich, December 1944-June 1945 Assistant of Victor Bouverat in Geneva.
Between 1941 and 1947 Robert Frank worked as a photographer in Zurich and Geneva and was responsible among other things for the still pictures in various Swiss films. He then traveled to New York and worked briefly for the magazine Harper 's Bazaar.
When traveling abroad on behalf of his employer in the years 1948-1954 including through Peru, Bolivia, Spain, Italy, southern France, England and Wales Robert Frank met the photographer and photojournalist Elliott Erwitt, Edward Steichen and Walker Evans. During this time he worked for magazines such as Life, McCall's, Look, Charm, Vogue and Fortune.
In 1953, Frank began in New York with Edward Steichen works for the exhibition Post-War European Photographers at the Museum of Modern Art and The Family of Man to make locate and select it.
In 1954, he applied for a Guggenheim Fellowship, the 1955 was also granted. He planned a large-scale picture story about the United States to photograph. Until 1957 he traveled so by the States and made 28,000 photos of which to his book he put together 83 Americans. He met traveling the vagabond writer Jack Kerouac, who then also contributed the foreword.
Starting in 1958, Robert Frank began to make films. In 1972 he was commissioned to make a documentary about a Rolling Stones tour. The result - Cocksucker Blues - but was released by the band because of his ruthless realism for individual screenings in the presence of the director.
Frank married his second wife, the sculptor June Leaf. The couple settled in 1971 in Mabou on Cape Breton Island in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia on. From 1972 he devoted himself again to photography.
Awards
Effect
His book The Americans ( first publication 1959) can be used as documentation of an entire civilization be considered. Robert Frank developed a completely unique and new style in photography. His influence on a variety of other artists, such as Philip -Lorca diCorcia, Robert Frank to make one of the most important photographers of the second half of the 20th century.
Exhibitions
- 2008, Robert Frank, Paris, Museum Folkwang, Essen
- 2009 The Americans. National Gallery of Art, Washington D C
- 2009, Robert Frank. The films. C / O Berlin, Berlin
Writings
Photo books
Foreword
- 2010: to: The Silent Aftermath of Space. Caleb Cain Marcus, Damiani