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Robert Frank
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Swiss-American photographer and documentary filmmaker (1924-2019)
OverviewAI-generated
Robert Frank was a Swiss-American film director, photographer, cinematographer, and screenwriter, born Robert Louis Frank in Zurich on 9 November 1924. He worked in New York City, Zurich, Detroit, and Canada, and lived in Manhattan, Zurich, and Mabou. Influenced by Walker Evans, he produced The Americans, with photographs held in the collections of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Hasselblad Award, and the Dr. Erich Salomon Prize, and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He was married to Mary Frank, had two children, and died in Inverness on 9 September 2019.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1933
- Died
- 2019
- Works
- 52
Top works
- The voyage of the Niña II
- Pirate port
- The underwater dig
- The lure of sunken treasure
- l'expedition de la nina II/470 ans apres christophe colomb neuf hommes revivent son epopée
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Film & TV
Directing · Zurich, Switzerland
Robert Frank is one of the most acclaimed photographers of the 20th century. He is best known for his seminal book "The Americans", featuring photographs taken by the artist in the mid-1950s as he traveled across the U.S. on a Guggenheim fellowship. Robert Frank is also known as a filmmaker.
Known for
- Robert and June (and All the Time in the World) — Self2025
- Robert Frank in Conversation with Clark Winter: 10 Films2024
- June and Robert Kara and Me — Self2022
- Hit Parade — Missiê Jack2021
- Life Goes On — Self2015
- Don't Blink - Robert Frank — Self2015
- Robert Frank Films — Self2006
- Sanyu2005
- Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank — Self2004
- Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom — Self2000
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1924
- Active to
- 2019
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 195
- Total plays
- 3,301
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 95,712x
- Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 56,512x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 46,778x
- Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso
· 1996 · cited 39,745x
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 39,444x
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Quotes
- “Life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference and it is important to see what is invisible to others.”
- “People are my favourite subject because there are no two alike, so my work never becomes routine.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1924-11-09 ) November 9, 1924, Zürich , Switzerland
- Died
- September 9, 2019 (2019-09-09) (aged 94), Inverness , Cape Breton , Nova Scotia , Canada
- Known for
- Photography, film directing
- Notable work
- The Americans
- Spouse s
- Mary Frank (divorced), June Leaf
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Louis
- Family name
- Frank
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Place of birth
- Zurich
- Place of death
- Inverness
- Spouse
- Mary Frank
- Occupation
- artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- The Americans
- Field of work
- film
- Genre
- portrait
- Number of children
- 2
- Work location
- Canada
- Residence
- Zurich
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- date of birth
- 1924-11-09
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
- influenced by
- Walker Evans
- has works in the collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- date of death
- 2019-09-09
- name in native language
- Robert Louis Frank
- different from
- Robert Frank
- municipal affiliation of a Swiss national
- Zurich
Sources (11)
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert Frank ( Swiss Standard German: [fraŋk]; November 9, 1924 – September 9, 2019) was a Swiss American photographer and documentary filmmaker. 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.
Background and early photography career
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