Robert Frank

Robert Frank

Its fair to say that Robert Frank was easily one of the most influential photographers during the mid 20^th century. Frank is an American Photographer, however born in Zurich, Switzerland. Franks best known by his series called ‘The Americans’ but was a successful fashion photographer for Harper’s Bazaar magazine in Paris before he moved to the United States, where he experimented with different types of photography. Frank became the first non-American to be awarded with the Guggenheim Fellowship in photography, which funded his journey across the America. After Frank’s year long trip he had taken 2700 photographs. Which back then is a great achievement, especially with the sheer class of those photographs. Only 83 of those photographs were actually used in his book of ‘The Americans’

Franks photographs have an unique however strange style to them, there are characterized with bold composition. Because of Franks unique style, his photographs were not immediately appreciated and respected. At first art critics were far from impressed with his work for being ‘seemingly loose and casual compositions’ photographs were often with out of focus foregrounds and tilted horizons. Many people often refused to write about his work that’s probably why the book The Americans wasn’t so successful straight away.

Robert Frank- The Americans
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