Talk:Robert Frank

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Is Franks work (in particular 'The Americans') a more accurate depiction of his loneliness whilst travelling around the country and experiencing things very much on the perimiter of the American way of life? Of course it is a subjective experience but where the results more propoganda than truth?

Horvitz
Horvitz who? I don't understand the english very well, when I read the line "The car was without proper title (it was legally owned by Peggy Guggenheim) and Horvitz was shortly arrested for possession of a stolen automobile." I don't understand who is Horvitz no mentioned before. --65.23.243.75 16:06, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, this section makes sense to the person who wrote it but not anyone else. Can anyone help? Philip Howard 14:09, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

I have no idea how this happened, nor where this Horvitz talk came from. As for Peggy Guggenheim, perhaps someone extrapolated from Guggenheim Fellowship. Frank actually bought the car from his friend, the picture editor, Ben Schultz. I have asked a number of the other Frank specialists and no one knows about a Horvitz. I am Stuart Alexander, author of the Robert Frank bibliography listed in the Bibliography. 6tuart (talk) 22:34, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Me and My Brother
In 1969 Frank's film Me and My Brother was released, the IMDb article is here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063286/ Should this be included and perhaps a filmography? --The Rumour 01:40, 3 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I can't say if that particular film merits discussion in the article, but the article did lack a link to his filmography at IMDB.com -- it shows 21 films that he directed. I've added the link, for now.  TheMindsEye 05:10, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Changed his birth date on the 'April 6' page
I noticed that Frank's birth date was listed as 1968 in the April 6 calendar article, but this article about him makes it clear that his birth year was 1924. Hurrmic 12:54, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I think it might be a different Frank who died&mdash;the April 6 listing described him as an "author/poet," which is not this Frank. I removed the listing pending attribution of the claim that he has died to a reliable source.  Postdlf 13:25, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

This Robert Frank was born November 9, 1924 and is still alive and well. 6tuart (talk) 22:38, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Walker Evans's Sponsorship of Frank's Guggenheim Application
John Szarkowski's essay in his last book, "John Szarkowski: Photographs", makes clear that Walker Evans, while sponsoring Frank's application for a 1955 Guggenheim Fellowship, was simultaneously that Foundation's secret referee for photography applications.

Frank's Relationship with Kerouac
Can anyone please tell me whether Robert Frank knew Kerouac or was aware of any beat writers before he began work on The Americans. It says in the wikipedia article that he did, but I have found conflicting information on other internet sites. Sources on where to find more information regarding Frank's early relationships with beat generation writers would also be extremely helpful.--Fernell90 (talk) 23:54, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Not Wikiquote
Quotations sections do not belong on Wikipedia WP:NOT WP:QUOTE they go on Wikiquote instead. 64.4.93.100 (talk) 17:04, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

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"meaningless blur, grain, muddy exposures, drunken horizons and general sloppiness"
The article says the quoted criticism was published in Popular Photography. The Guardian article, referenced at the end of the paragraph, attributes it to Practical Photography (I don't know whether Practical Photography is meant, as that British magazine was only first published the same year Grove Press published The Americans in the US). In the obituaries, I can find a lot of attribution to "Popular Photography", but those writers may have taken this from Wikipedia. The Washington Post 's obituary quotes Popular Photography as writing “a wart-covered picture of America by a joyless man”. Anyway, I haven't solved this yet, maybe someone can find the original quotes from the archives of these magazines? Currently, the quoted magazine doesn't correspond with the title quoted in the given source. ---Sluzzelin talk  18:28, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

Collections
Would it be helpful to start a section on the Robert Frank page listing the locations for major collections of Frank's work? This is popular on other artist and photographer pages. For instance, the Smithsonian, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art all have important Robert Frank collections. If there are other collections that should be included, please add them here. Sdylanewing (talk) 16:13, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes it would be worthwhile. -Lopifalko (talk) 16:30, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

"Frank met Beat writer Jack Kerouac on the sidewalk outside a party"
There is conflicting information about this from Joyce Johnson, who describes introducing Kerouac to Frank in the waiting room of Viking Press, Kerouac's publisher, while Kerouac was in conference with his editors. The Wikipedia article's source is a New York Times Magazine article that quotes Frank as saying that he met Kerouac ‘‘at a New York party where poets and Beatniks were. Some painters. Everything happened downtown.’’

I would emphasize that the source has Frank saying "at a New York party." The editor has groundlessly extrapolated "on the sidewalk outside a party" from the  Times Magazine piece, so I plan to correct this. I also plan to cite Johnson, as "Another version of their meeting is provided by Joyce Johnson, Kerouac's lover at the time." Larry Koenigsberg (talk) 22:40, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
 * "I met Jack Kerouac on a hot summer night - a party in New York City. We sat down on the sidewalk. I showed Jack the photographs for The Americans. He said: 'Sure I can write something about these pictures...'" This is a quote attributed to Robert Frank on the back dust jacket of the 1998 Scalo edition of The Americans. The main text should describe it something like "Frank recounted meeting Kerouac at a party in New York City..." and so on; Johnson's different account can be mentioned in a footnote. postdlf (talk) 23:54, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Exhibitions
I have removed the list of exhibitions per MOS:ART, but am preserving them here in case anyone would like to use them as the basis of future research.


 * 1961: Robert Frank: The Americans, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
 * 1976: Robert Frank, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich
 * 1979: Robert Frank: Photographer/Filmmaker, Works 1945–1979, Long Beach Museum of Art.
 * 1985: Robert Frank: New York to Nova Scotia, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
 * 1989: The Americans, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles
 * 1997: Flamingo, Hasselblad Award exhibition, Hasselblad Center, Goteborg, Sweden
 * 2003: Robert Frank: London/Wales, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
 * 2004: Storylines, Tate Modern Museum, London
 * 2005: Storylines, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
 * 2008: Robert Frank. Paris, Museum Folkwang, Essen
 * 2009: Looking In: The Americans, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
 * 2009: Robert Frank. Die Filme, C/O Berlin, Berlin
 * 2010: The Unseen Eye: Photography from the collection of W.M. Hunt (group exhibition), Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala
 * 2012: Robert Frank. From the collection of Fotomuseum Winterthur, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
 * 2014: Robert Frank In America, Cantor Art Center at Stanford University, Stanford
 * 2014: Robert Frank. Books and Films. 1947–2014, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München; anschließend 2015 Museum Folkwang, Essen
 * 2016: Robert Frank: Books and Films, 1947–2016, HALLE 14 – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
 * 2016: Robert Frank: Books and Films. 1947–2016, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
 * 2016: Robert Frank: Books and Films. 1947–2016, Kunsthalle Ziegelhütte, Appenzell
 * 2017: Robert Frank: Photos, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
 * 1955: The Family of Man, Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 24 – May 8 (Frank represented with 5 works)
 * 1962: Photographs by Harry Callahan and Robert Frank, Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 30 – April 1
 * 2004: Cruel and Tender. Fotografie und das Wirkliche, Museum Ludwig, Köln
 * 2004: Cold Play. Set 1 aus der Sammlung des Fotomuseums Winterthur, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
 * 2005: I Wanna Be Loved By You, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn
 * 2006: American Beauty, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
 * 2006: Some tribes, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich
 * 2008: Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
 * 2010: Staff Picks 2010, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
 * 2010: Humanos. Acciones, Historia Y Fotografía, Centro de Arte Alcobendas (CAA), Madrid

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