Robert frank photography

Today marks the passing of Swiss-American Photographer Robert Frank. In the wake of his 94 years of living, Frank produced a wide array of documentary photography that captured societal discrepancies through the iconography of ordinary subjects through linear composition and pronounced lighting. His passion for...

Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Robert Frank, City of London, 1951

Posts about Robert Frank written by Dr Marcus Bunyan

Robert Frank was a Swiss photographer and documentary filmmaker whose 1958 book titled The Americans has been heralded as perhaps the most influential

Pablo in Times Square, 1953

Robert Frank, London, 1952, printed 1953. Gelatin silver print, overall: 13 1/2 × 8 11/16 in. (34.3 × 22.1 cm) Mount: 18 × 15 in. (45.7 × 38.1 cm) Frame: 19 3/16 × 15 1/4 in. (48.7 × 38.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee in memory of Eugene M. Schwartz 95.169. © Robert Frank, courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Movie Premiere - Hollywood, 1956

Pioneering documentary photographer Robert Frank's collection of black and white photographs gives a unique glimpse of what life in the city was like for the rich and poor during the 1950s.

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