The lure of the street May 31, 2008
In the mid-1950s, Evans's prot;g;, the Swiss Robert Frank, brought to the table an utterly unexpected quality: gruff indifference, both to the claims of human dignity by which earlier generations of documentary photographers - Strand among them - had set such store and to any received idea of how a photograph was supposed to look. Scramble all of this together and, by the late 1960s and early 70s, the street, in the unharnessed - at times, it seems, unhinged - fecundity of Garry Winogrand and... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Western Iowa Tech graduates GED students May 26, 2008
Spencer: Brandon Allan Bootsma, Brandi Marie Chessey, Robert Frank Jones Jr., Rebecca Genevieve Mackey. Sutherland: *Drew Christopher Green. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Ed Ruscha's best shot May 22, 2008
Inspirations: Eug;ne Atget, Robert Frank, Walker Evans. High Point: Back in the 1960s, shooting pictures of apartment houses and parking lots. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Billionaire prefers to invest in the 'real world' May 20, 2008
by Robert Frank - May. 19, 2008 09:30 AM The Wall Street Journal. (AZCentral -- Business)
Going, Going, Not Gone May 2, 2008
Robert Frank, one of the Journal's best writers, quickly went from dollars and cents to scene-setting. "As a new wave of wealthy collectors poured into the market to fill their mansion walls," Frank wrote, "auctions have become competitions of conspicuous consumption, filled with celebrities, hedge-fund managers and mystery billionaire bidders from Russia and China.". (Slate)
Linda McCartney's lives through a lens Apr 23, 2008
She was very into Magnum photographers and into Edward Curtis and Robert Frank ... It was occasionally derivative of Cartier-Bresson's, and there are bright shafts of the work of Kertesz, of Imogen Cunningham and Robert Frank. (Times Online)
The school of hard knocks Apr 13, 2008
It spans the years between the 1930s and the 1960s, an era in which the term 'American street photography' was defined by the likes of Lisette Model, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander and Diane Arbus. Photography is the art of the split second,' said Model later, summing up the prevailing aesthetic of the time. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
A writing camp for teens aids free expression Mar 17, 2008
A selection committee of four people, which included Brown, Robert Frank of the nonprofit Center for Collaborative Education; Sylvia Simmons, a trustee at the Museum of Fine Arts and her daughter Lisa Simmons, who runs The Color of Film Collaborative, decided which work would be included. The publication goes on sale by April 15, depending on when the editor, Boston poet laureate Sam Cornish, and the graphic designer finish their work. (Boston Globe)
The Urge to Renovate Feb 24, 2008
It's a view best articulated by Cornell economist Robert Frank, author of Luxury Fever, and it's a theory I've come to think of as the I've earned it hypothesis. Frank believes people spend big money on visible goods like watches, cars, or kitchen remodels not only to impress and compete with friends but also to treat and comfort themselves. (Boston Globe)
Wall St. Journal plans a move and a sports page Jan 29, 2008
Initially, Robert Frank, a longtime Journal reporter who wrote the book "Richistan," published by Crown in 2007, about wealthy Americans, was expected to be the magazine's first editor. But Monday, the paper announced that the editor would be Tina Gaudoin, editor of Luxx, a similar magazine published by another News Corporation paper, The Times of London. (International Herald Tribune)
First Exhibitions of 2008 at the Addison Gallery Range from Mid-Century Architecture to New England Landscapes Jan 17, 2008
Opened in 1931, the Gallery has one of the most important collections of American art in the country that includes more than 16,000 works by prominent American artists such as George Bellows, John Singleton Copley, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Georgia OKeeffe and Jackson Pollock, as well as photographers Eadweard Muybridge, Walker Evans, Robert Frank and many more. The Addison Gallery, located on the campus of Phillips Academy in Andover, offers a continually rotating series of exhibitions... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Paul Kadarisman: Delivering a unique take on life Dec 22, 2007
" Paul said he admired Firman and Oscar Motuloh, as well as internationally acclaimed photographers Robert Frank and Nobuyoshi Araki. It is Araki, however, who has had the biggest influence on Paul. "I mostly admire his creative process. It is time-consuming and not an instant, spontaneous process. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
New mantra for the wealthy in 2008: downsizing Dec 22, 2007
Robert Frank The Wall Street Journal Dec. 21, 2007 09:37 AM. For the wealthy, 2007 was the year that bigger was better - from yachts and incomes to personal staff and art collections. (AZCentral -- Business)
Modern Photography Exhibitions Dec 2, 2007
Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans". The exhibition examines the construction and influence of The Americans (1958) by Robert Frank (b. (Suite101.com)
Campus Notes Nov 26, 2007
The speech, "The Logic(s) of Expenditure: Bataille in the Context of Michael Marmot and Robert Frank," is a part of the Compararative Literature Luncheon series. Penn State's Michael Robbins will speak at 12:10 p.m. today in 108 Wartik Laboratory. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Camera obscura Sep 23, 2007
These days Bown is more likely to remind people of Robert Frank, Cartier-Bresson having been ranked with the immortals. Cartier-Bresson collected 10 international awards for photography, Bown has none. (Guardian Unlimited)
Dow Jones says to launch glossy magazine Sep 17, 2007
Among the participants in the magazine is Robert Frank, the Journal's wealth reporter and author of "Richistan". The magazine will include features on fashion, homes and philanthropy, the Journal said. (Reuters UK)
Photographer Abelardo Morell is focus of new documentary ''Shadow of the House'' Sep 13, 2007
Along the way, we learn of Morell's discovery of photography, as an undergraduate at Bowdoin College ("The first couple of rolls I developed were like the DNA for my life"); his early emulation of Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, and Henri Cartier-Bresson; and how becoming a father deepened him as an artist. That may sound like touchy-feely cant, but looking at Morell's images, we can see what he means. (Boston Globe)
Poetry of place: Photographer Lynn Davis travels the world to create evocative and personal images Jul 21, 2007
Then, in 1984, she and her partner, novelist/screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer, took a boat trip with photographer Robert Frank. "[Frank] said 'I saw this little iceberg and it was like one of your nudes,'" says Davis. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Merging detachment and intimacy May 20, 2007
"He's a bridge between the modernist tradition of street photography represented by artists like Garry Winogrand, Robert Frank, and Diane Arbus, and another, newer tradition of staged and artificially mediated approaches practiced by people like Jeff Wall and Gregory Crewdson. ". There is an enigmatic tension between detachment and intimacy as well in DiCorcia's works from the '80s that first drew art-world attention to him: a series of portraits of male prostitutes in Los Angles whom the... (Boston Globe)
Have camera, will travel Mar 25, 2007
Some of the great chapters in photographic history have come from journeys: Timothy O'Sullivan out West, Edward Weston in Mexico, Henri-Cartier Bresson in Spain, Walker Evans in the South, Robert Frank on the road, Diane Arbus through the looking glass. Three of those trips -- Weston's, Cartier-Bresson's, and Frank's -- figure in "Far from Home: Photography, Travel, and Inspiration," which runs at the Art Institute of Chicago through May 6. (Boston Globe)
Read Indepth Article Mar 18, 2007
Tuggener was an important early influence on his fellow countryman Robert Frank, who responded to both his subjective point of view and his interest in sequencing. Frank introduced Tuggener to Edward Steichen, then Director of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York, and Steichen included Tuggener in three survey shows at MOMA, most importantly his classic exhibition The Family of Man in 1955. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Picture this -- while you can Mar 18, 2007
" Estimate: $400,000 to $600,000. The sole certainly unique print on view from the Weston Collection, "Portrait of Edward Weston" by his lover Margrethe Mather (1886-1952), gains value both from its rarity and its intimate relation to its subject, which the warmth of the image seems to reflect. But Mather has nothing like Weston's own importance in the history of the medium, which has probably "depressed" the estimate to $250,000 to $350,000. Many factors account for what will strike most people... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Art Gallery to Get Jasper Johns Prints Mar 6, 2007
Besides Johns, the gallery has acquired the most extensive institutional holdings of works by several other 20th-century artists, including Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Frank, John Marin, Mark Rothko and Alfred Stieglitz. . (Shoals TimesDaily)
Bruce Davidson's 'encounters with the invisible' Mar 1, 2007
Davidson said he was influenced by some photographers as if he had inherited their molecules: Robert Frank, Eugene Smith and Henri Cartier-Bresson, to whom he showed the "Widow" pictures in Paris and who invited him to join Magnum in 1958. "He was a complex man, distant, a very cool guy, not that I knew him that well but I did meet him at the right time in my life," Davidson said, although his own approach is the opposite of the "decisive moment" ethos. (International Herald Tribune)
When reality presents itself to Henry Wessel, his 'soft eyes' are available to capture -- and elevate -- the moment Feb 23, 2007
" He plunged into picture making and absorbed the work of street photographers like Eugene Atget, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand. He cites the last two as influences, and also loves the paintings of Edward Hopper, whose isolated American figures are brought to mind by Wessel's oddly arresting 1981 "Point Richmond, California. " It shows an older gent in a light suit standing at the weathered garage door of a funky little house with pipes climbing the facade, a patch of chain... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Classical Music hits the Road Feb 15, 2007
It's too bad photographer Robert Frank is such a recluse. He could put together a whole new version of his classic book The Americans tagging along with the musical duo Nathan Granner and Beau Bledsoe. (Hillsborough Beacon, NJ)
Galleries: New York City through the lens of Saul Leiter Jan 25, 2007
Leiter isn't a documentary photographer or social commentator, like Robert Frank. Nor is he a formalist, like Aaron Siskind. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Far From Home: Photography, Travel, and Inspiration Jan 25, 2007
Robert Frank made his seminal body of work for his book The Americans upon leaving his native Switzerland and heading out on an extended road trip across the United States from 1955 to 1956. Harry Callahan left Chicago and the responsibilities of teaching behind to spend a year in Provence and view his subject matter of family and nature anew. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Daydreams and Decay Dec 1, 2006
Mr. Becotte studied fine art photography in the 1960s, and was influenced by photographers such as Minor White, Edward Weston and Robert Frank. After studying with Aaron Siskind, he focused on both abstract and landscape photography and street photography before concentrating on constructed scenes. (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
In New York, photo galleries broaden their focus Dec 1, 2006
"I believe there is one history." His artists could constitute a foundation course in photography since the 1950s: Robert Frank, Harry Callahan, Duane Michals, Irving Penn, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, among others. Today in Culture. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
'Streets' focuses on photography Nov 2, 2006
Two dates set the exhibit's parameters: 1938, when Walker Evans published "American Photographs," and 1958, when Robert Frank published "The Americans.". With only this much explanation, viewers are on their own to explore and to develop their own ideas about the exhibit. (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, VA)
Falling into new exhibits Sep 22, 2006
Some 70 photos from a fertile period in American photography, when artists such as Walker Evans, Robert Frank and Weegee sought to capture the transitory nature of modern life and thus changed the course of their medium. Information: 202-737-4215 or nga. (USA Today -- Life)
Different shades of Arden Sep 4, 2006
Arden's other allegiance is to the tradition of American "social landscape" photography that one can trace from Walker Evans to Robert Frank, to William Eggleston and Robert Adams, and through to the likes of Stephen Shore and Lewis Baltz. It's an august lineage, widely emulated among living photographers. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Levine's $3.5m salary tops US conductors Jul 25, 2006
Robert Frank , a Cornell University economics professor and coauthor of the book ``The Winner Take All Society," said Levine's salary is in line with the market for top-notch music directors.``From society's perspective, wouldn't it be better if the conductors all earned a little less and the teachers all earned a little more?" he mused. But if you ask one city not to bid for a talented conductor, it might be not be happy with what it gets. (Boston Globe)
Warhol Shoots Kissinger, Mapplethorpe Favors Flowers in Tokyo Exhibition Apr 19, 2006
A racially divided trolley in 1950s New Orleans by Swiss photographer Robert Frank shows an angry-looking white woman glaring at the camera, while a black passenger in the background looks sadly at the photographer. Shots by August Sanders, taken in Germany in the 1920s, show a drunken sailor, a barman with the florid nose of years of alcohol, a middle-class family posing proudly in front of their house. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
Art | The photographers who captured and captivated Jan 22, 2006
Among its 72 prints, all but one in black-and-white, are classic images by acknowledged masters such as Robert Frank, Louis Faurer, Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Lisette Model, Larry Fink and Joel Meyerowitz. They are teamed with a number of lesser-known but equally talented people, some of them from eastern Pennsylvania, such as Mark Cohen, Bruce Davidson, William Klein, Leon Levinstein, Danny Lyon, Susan Meiselas and Bill Owens. (Philly.com -- Entertainment)
