Robert Frank (1924-2019) 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
- The Americans
Frank said, “There are too many images, too many cameras now. We’re all being watched. It gets sillier and sillier. As if all action is meaningful. Nothing is really all that special. It’s just life. If all moments are recorded, then nothing is beautiful and maybe photography isn’t an art anymore. Maybe it never was.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frank
https://www.tate.org.uk/tate-etc/issue-2-autumn-2004/six-reflections-on-photography-robert-frank
https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2013/01/07/timeless-lessons-street-photographers-can-learn-from-robert-franks-the-americans/
https://www.tate.org.uk/tate-etc/issue-2-autumn-2004/six-reflections-on-photography-robert-frank
https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2013/01/07/timeless-lessons-street-photographers-can-learn-from-robert-franks-the-americans/
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https://youtu.be/mHtRZBDOgag
https://youtu.be/mHtRZBDOgag
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