Robert Frank 1924 - 2019
Swiss American photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, noted for his ironic renderings of American life has died on September 9, 2019. Independent, unconventional and personal, Frank has always followed his own poetic and raw language. In the 1950s he travelled the United States, photographing people in everyday situations that depicted the gritty “real life” of the US at the time. This resulted in his 1958 book of 83 photographs called The Americans, which became a classic. It documented societal problems in the US in the 1950s, some of which are still unresolved in the country today.
I have photographed Robert Frank in 2000 in Zurich for my book “Faces of Photography”
