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MoMA exhibition: Robert Frank – more like «The Americans» – Kultur

MoMA exhibition: Robert Frank – more like «The Americans» – Kultur

Robert Frank revolutionized photography with his book “The Americans” 1958. A conventional and direct documentation is the American company. Was danach kam, sta often in Schatten dieses Meisterwerks. There is a Solo-Ausstellung in the New Yorker Museum of Modern Art and.

The exhibition «Life Dances On», a film by Robert Frank, reflects Frank’s philosophy of life more broadly: moving forward. After «The Americans» he engaged in documentary photography and art film.

The workshop begins with a series of photographs and Robert Frank goes to Fifth Avenue by bus. All kinds of situations with a Mann, the golden light of the bus in the Strasse, or a Geschäftsmann with a card of an arm, an automatic car. Jedes Bild is in Bewegung.

“If these photos tell a different story,” said Robert Frank, “it would be clear, that was the origin of the war.”

This war is characterized by cinematic Schaffens: Art film with a film with the written writers Alfred Leslie, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg (“Pull my Daisy”), which follows the documentary film “Cocksucker Blues” about The Rolling Stones which follows experimental Kurzfilms.

Black and white statue of a man, the room is quiet.
Legend:

Mick Jagger in Underpants: Next to documentary photography is Robert Frank with his Bewegtbild – with «Cocksucker Blues» with The Rolling Stones, 1972.

The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation/MoMA

MoMA said more films have been made, and it is a disaster, which excludes a cinematic speech of the photographic film in “The Americans.”

With the camera in hand

Robert Frank does not explain his photo room, war can have an interesting visual effect. There are many photos of other, malte or kritzelt Worte directly on the image and the power of photos of the work.

Collage of four photographs and a look, which takes a picture of a smiling woman.
Legend:

Effective and accomplished by Robert Frank and Tod Seiner in the 1975 work «Andrea».

The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation/MoMA

Moving is a collage with a photo that still and goes through life «I think of Andrea every day». See it as a Flugzeugabsturz. Look at Robert Frank. In his Art there is talk of personal experiences and emotions.

Living according to the masterpiece

The anerkennung, the time in which time passed, moved Robert Frank. His heart is a blessing for the creative process, the Erzahlen von Geschichten – and for his wife, the artist June Leaf. They work and work in New York on Bleecker Street and in the country of Nova Scotia in Canada.

There are many people who live in Stirn.
Legend:

No Leaf Passes: Robert Frank and his wife June Leaf on the road in New York 2016. Three years later, the photo and film maker appeared.

Image/ZUMA press conference

A high point of the recording is the «Scrapbook Filme», a Sammelalbum of films, which would first go to the end of the world. This is an art of visual Tagebuch: Robert Frank filmed in his Zuhause, on his journey in Zurich and Egypt and commentary, was a problem. ‘I walked ten blocks. Had breakfast.»

About Robert Frank


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Robert Frank was born in Zurich in 1924. His photographic career began in Switzerland and 23 years ago in New York, where the Zeit Modefotografe during the Harper’s Bazaar war took place. This interest goes out to documentary photography and a revolutionary revolution with «The Americans».

The MoMA enjoys a full, experimental and experimental experience at Robert Franks Schaffen, the man of photographers and filmmakers can no longer. The Ausstellung «Life Dances On» is an intensive and bereichernder Tanz during the life and work of Robert Franks during 60 years.

Proof of postponement


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«Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialog» will be at the Museum of Modern Art New York from September 15, 2024 to March 2025.

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