Robert Frank

Robert Frank was born in November 9, in 1924 in Zurich Switzerland. He is ones of the world’s most influential and prominent photographer in America photography and film, for more then fifty years he has broken the rules of photography and film making, challenging boundaries between the still life and the moving image.

Frank emigrated to United States in 1947 and secured a job in New York City as a Fashion Photographer for Harper’s Bazar; married to the Artist Mary Lockspeipeiser and had two children, Andrea and Paolo, thereafter they separated and he married to Sculptor June and moved to the Community of Mabou in Canada. Frank’s

subsequent work has dealt with the impact of the loss of both his daughter Andrea that was killed in a plane crash and his son Paolo who was first hospitalized and diagnosed with Schizophrenia.

Frank’s latest work from the book ‘ The Americans’ he divided the book into four chapters or parts, each one beginning with a photograph of flag and each one which addresses for the difference aspects of American Culture. He created narratives out of constructed images and of images incorporating words and multiple frames distorted on the negative, some blurred autofocus form and mostly dark images with bright lights which makes a strong contrast that is very magnificent and masterpiece work.

REFERENCE

• Book: The Americans
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHtRZBDOgag&feature=related
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAMrrrFmayY&feature=related
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DwjvOR4YL4&feature=related
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uARK9oesck&feature=related