Research - Robert frank

Robert Frank

Robert frank was a swizzes photographer, born 1924, has worked as a fashion photographer for harpers bazaar magazine. He created a handmade book of photographs that he shot in Peru and returned to U.S in 1950. That year was momentous for frank , who after meeting Edward Steichen, participated in the group show ‘ 51 American photographers; at the Museum of Modern Art.

With the aid of his major artistic influence, the photographer Walker Evans, Frank received his first Guggenheim fellowship in 1955, then embarked on a two- year journey across America during which he took over 28,000 images. Just 83 made it into the ground breaking monograph The Americans.

The idea of contrasting social classes would later be used to great effect by the outstanding Robert Frank , his style of photography was looser and spontaneous which we see that in a lot of his images frank try to capture the emotions that are founds within the space or period of time , we can see with the examples that have been given that frank really viewed his images as a microscope by this we mean that he wanted to capture the moments that were not quite visible un less you took a closer look at it .