Research Paper On Robert Frank
Robert Frank
Alej Villalobos
November 17, 2015
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“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice”(Frank). Robert Frank’s photography, was the type of photography that you could look at for hours on end, leaving you wondering if there was further meaning in the photography. Robert Frank, was one of the most famous photographers. He was famous for being an American photographer and a documentary filmmaker, he influenced many other photographers and soon then followed into his footsteps into becoming an American photographer.
Robert Frank, was born in November 9, 1924 (age 91) in Zürich, Switzerland. Frank, had a small family not many. Rosa, being his …show more content…
He would wait till the time was perfect to take it. Every photograph he took had a meaning behind it in his eyes and also wanted it to have a meaning in others people's eyes. Whether the photograph was a funeral goers lean against a shiny sedan, or lovers kissing on a beach blanket in front of their parked car, young boys perch in the back seat at a drive in movie. A sports car framed by two California palm tree all these precise moments had a meeting behind them. Frank, has gone through a lot so he expressed a lot through his photographs. Frank and his wife divorced in 1969 just as Frank had started to document his family his son Pablo was diagnosed with schizophrenia (“a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.”) (Frank’s article definition) and his daughter Andrea died in a plane crash in, 1974 at 21 years …show more content…
“I know this town, but I certainly feel like a stranger here,’’ he said. He was amazing by how much the city had changed it was perfect too him. Frank had come back to Switzerland to receive the “Roswitha Haftmann Prize for lifetime achievement, Europe’s most lucrative fine-arts award” (Dawidoff).
One of the most influential and wealthy photographers of the mid-20th century. Robert Frank is still inspiring people and many other professional photographers around the world with his extraordinary work. Frank no longer takes photographs because of his old age but he says “all my photographs are always alive like if I just took them” (Frank). Frank believes that he does not have to throw coins into fountains because he has everything he needs in his life, he doesn't believe in wishing wells “ only the poor have to hope”
Alej Villalobos
November 17, 2015
Block #1
“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice”(Frank). Robert Frank’s photography, was the type of photography that you could look at for hours on end, leaving you wondering if there was further meaning in the photography. Robert Frank, was one of the most famous photographers. He was famous for being an American photographer and a documentary filmmaker, he influenced many other photographers and soon then followed into his footsteps into becoming an American photographer.
Robert Frank, was born in November 9, 1924 (age 91) in Zürich, Switzerland. Frank, had a small family not many. Rosa, being his …show more content…
He would wait till the time was perfect to take it. Every photograph he took had a meaning behind it in his eyes and also wanted it to have a meaning in others people's eyes. Whether the photograph was a funeral goers lean against a shiny sedan, or lovers kissing on a beach blanket in front of their parked car, young boys perch in the back seat at a drive in movie. A sports car framed by two California palm tree all these precise moments had a meeting behind them. Frank, has gone through a lot so he expressed a lot through his photographs. Frank and his wife divorced in 1969 just as Frank had started to document his family his son Pablo was diagnosed with schizophrenia (“a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.”) (Frank’s article definition) and his daughter Andrea died in a plane crash in, 1974 at 21 years …show more content…
“I know this town, but I certainly feel like a stranger here,’’ he said. He was amazing by how much the city had changed it was perfect too him. Frank had come back to Switzerland to receive the “Roswitha Haftmann Prize for lifetime achievement, Europe’s most lucrative fine-arts award” (Dawidoff).
One of the most influential and wealthy photographers of the mid-20th century. Robert Frank is still inspiring people and many other professional photographers around the world with his extraordinary work. Frank no longer takes photographs because of his old age but he says “all my photographs are always alive like if I just took them” (Frank). Frank believes that he does not have to throw coins into fountains because he has everything he needs in his life, he doesn't believe in wishing wells “ only the poor have to hope”