NEW YORK -- Robert Frank, a giant of 20th-century photography whose seminal book "The Americans" captured singular, candid moments of the 1950s and helped free picture-taking from the boundaries of ...

The Museum of Modern Art is celebrating the centennial of the birth of renowned photographer and filmmaker, Robert Frank—born on November 9, 1924 in Zurich, Switzerland—with its first exhibition ...

Early in 1947, the Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank boarded a liberty ship in Antwerp, Belgium; almost a month later, he arrived alone in New York, to make his way as an artist. There he met his ...

“I hate these fuckin’ interviews,” Robert Frank says just a few moments into Laura Israel’s Don’t Blink, a vigorous documentary surveying the career and ...

Some birthdays are worth extended celebration. Robert Frank’s certainly is. Frank was one of the most influential photographers of the second half of the 20th century, thanks largely, though not ...

NEW YORK — It makes perfect sense that someone who’d changed the face of an art form would then want to keep changing his own approach to that art form. Once Everest has been climbed, why climb it ...

Not even ten minutes into director Gerald Fox’s 2004 documentary Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank, the legendary photographer-collagist-filmmaker, then turning 80, explodes when ...

“Robert Frank had an incredibly star-studded early career that includes a number of brushes with some of America’s most prolific historical figures in the arts including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, ...

A photo from Frank’s “The Americans” shows why he was the prince of blur. The Swiss American photographer Robert Frank (1924-2019) was a beacon of artistic empathy. He was also the prince of blur — ...

Get ready for “Manet/Degas” and several shows on Picasso this season, plus dazzling surveys of works by Henry Taylor and Alma Thomas. By Will Heinrich An I.C.P. retrospective displays the ...