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Robert Frank
Swiss-American photographer (1924–2019)
For other people named Robert Frank, see Robert Frank (disambiguation).
Robert Frank (November 9, 1924 – September 9, 2019) was a Swiss Americanphotographer 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."[1] Frank later expanded into film and video and experimented with manipulating photographs and photomontage.[2]
Background and early photography career
Frank was born in Zürich, Switzerland, the son of Rosa (Zucker) and Hermann Frank. His family was Jewish.[3] According to Frank, his mother, Rosa (other sources give her name as Regina), had a Swiss passport, while his father, H
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Frank, Robert 1968-
PERSONAL:
Born June 6, 1968; married; children: one.
ADDRESSES:
Home—New York, NY. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
Wall Street Journal,New York, NY, senior special writer.
AWARDS, HONORS:
Overseas Press Club award, 1998, for team coverage of developing economies.
WRITINGS:
Richistan: A Journey through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich, Crown Publishers (New York, NY), 2007.
SIDELIGHTS:
A senior writer for the Wall Street Journal, Robert Frank has been reporting on financial matters for more than thirteen years. In Richistan: A Journey through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich, he tours the world of the superrich to reveal their curious customs and behaviors. He argues that the new rich, who earned their spectacular incomes in the 1980s and after, are different in significant ways from those who obtained their wealth in earlier times. For one thing, their incomes—mostly earned, rather than inherited—are proportionately larger than those of the traditional rich; what is more, there are many
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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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