Robert Frank (1924 - 2019)
1924-11-09Zurich, Switzerland2019-09-09Inverness, CanadaSwitzerland, Canada
Robert Frank
Robert Frank was a Swiss photographer and documentary filmmaker, who became an American binational. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society. Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian in 2014, said The Americans "changed the nature of photography, what it could say and how it could say it. it remains perhaps the most influential photography book of the 20th century." Frank later expanded into film and video and experimented with manipulating photographs and photomontage.
Date and place of birt: | 9 november 1924, Zurich, Switzerland |
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Date and place of death: | 9 september 2019, Inverness, Canada |
Nationality: | Switzerland, Canada |
Period of activity: | XX, XXI century |
Specialization: | Artist, Filmmaker, Photographer |
Genre: | Documentary photography, Street Photography |
Art style: | Realism |