Robert frank photos
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Robert Frank
2024
The Valleys, National Museum of Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom, May 25–November 3, 2024.
Presences: Photographic treasures from the Gilman and Gonzalez-Falla Collections, Maison Caillebotte, Yerres, France, May 23–September 22, 2024. (Catalogue).
Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, May 18, 2024–January 5, 2025. (Catalogue)
Reverberations, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, April 28–September 29, 2024.
2023
Black & White: An Aesthetic of Photography, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, October 17, 2023–January 21, 2024.
Robert Frank and Todd Webb: Across America, 1955, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, October 8, 2023–January 7, 2024. (Catalogue)
A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, September 15, 2023–January 14, 2024. Traveled to: Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, March 1–July 31, 2024; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, October 5, 2024–J
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Summary of Robert Frank
Robert Frank came to artistic eminence following the publication of his seminal book The Americans which is regarded to this day as one of the most influential photography projects of the 20th century. Frank became associated with the so-called 'Beat Circle', a group of poets, writers and artists - beatniks - who exemplified the apolitical, free-form spirit of post-war American existentialism. Having made his living as a commissioned commercial photographer, but left feeling frustrated artistically in that role, Frank took his 35mm camera onto the streets and highways of America where he honed his highly influential style of wandering, observational photography. Frank shunned the principle of balanced compositions in favor of crooked, grainy high contrasts in black and white and his revolutionary approach to his subjects was to prove decisive in the development of a more authentic reportage photography. In later years Frank found critical success as an underground moviemaker and his work generally took on a more personal, even spiritual, dimension. In it
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Biography
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 unconventional use of the 35-millimeter Leica for fashion work, he disliked the limitations of fashion photography and resigned a few months after he was hired. Between 1950 and 1955 he worked freelance producing photojournalism and advertising photographs for LIFE, Look, Charm, Vogue, and others. He also garnered support for his independently produced street photographs from important figures in the New York art world, including Edward Steichen, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Walker Evans, who became an important American advocate of Frank's photography. It was Evans who suggested that he apply for the Guggenheim Fellowship that freed him to travel throughout the country in 1955 and 1956 and make the photographs that would result
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