An Interview with Robert Frank – “If An Artist Doesn’t Take Risks, Then It’s Not Worth It.” (2007)
An Exclusive Interview with Robert Frank, Robert Frank’s Studio, New York, July 22, 2007
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ASX.TV: Streetwise – “Robert Frank and The Americans” (2011)
Streetwise builds on Swiss photographer Robert Frank’s snapshot aesthetic, which gained attention following the release of his groundbreaking book, The Americans in 1959. Frank’s focus on a more personal documentary style influenced a new generation of photographers, including legendaries such as Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Jerry Berndt, Ruth-Marion Baruch, Garry Winogrand, Bruce Davidson, Danny Lyon […]
Hugh Edwards: “Letter to Robert Frank” (1960)
Photograph by Hugh Edwards Originally published in DoubleTake Magazine, Summer 1996 May 23, 1960 Mr. Robert Frank, 34 Third Avenue, New York City, New York. Dear Mr. Frank: It seems so long since I was in New York and talked with you on the telephone that I am afraid you have forgotten the conversations […]
The Photographer in the Beat-Hipster Idiom – Robert Frank’s The Americans
from ‘The Americans’ @ Robert Frank Frank’s personality, described by Joyce Johnson as a blend of “European dourness and pessimistic wit,” certainly helped to focus his photographic vision. By George Cotkin, Professor, Postwar United States Intellectual and Cultural History, California Polytechnic State University Few analysts have captured the sadness, tensions, ironies and possibilities […]
Robert Frank’s America (1982)
The feeling among them was unanimous: this was not how America was to be shown. But what was at issue was a larger matter than patriotism. The challenge of Frank’s work in the late ’50s lay in his treatment of his subject matter and in his use of a photographic style well out of the […]
ASX.TV: “Inside Robert Frank’s The Americans” (2010)
The National Gallery of Art organized a comprehensive exhibit of Robert Frank’s work (Images courtesy of: National Gallery of Art; Produced by: Diane Bolz and Brian Wolly)
ASX.TV: Robert Frank – “Interview” (2010)
Robert Frank is interviewed by Peter Burchett.
Walker Evans and Robert Frank – An Essay on Influence by Tod Papageorge (1981)
The purpose of this (text) is to describe the influence of Walker Evans’ American Photographs (1938) on The Americans (1959) of Robert Frank. By Tod Papageorge The purpose of this monograph is to describe the influence of Walker Evans’ American Photographs (1938) on The Americans (1959) of Robert Frank. To do this, the photographs in […]
Robert Frank: Dissecting the American Image (1986)
The lesson often learned from The Americans was not one of content or meaning, but a realization of the enormous strength of the attitude behind it. What a poem this is, what poems can be written about this book of pictures some day… — Jack Kerouac By Jno Cook for Exposure Magazine, Volume […]
A Conversation Between Robert Morat and Matteo Di Giovanni
RM: What is “home“ to you? Maybe also talk about where and how you grew up and where you feel your roots are. MDG: This is a question I’ve been asking myself many times in the last few years and – to be frank – I still don’t have a definitive answer. I’m more prone […]