Robert Frank
Robert Frank
Robert Frankis an American photographer and documentary filmmaker. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society. Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian in 2014, said The Americans "changed the nature of photography, what it could say and how it could say it. it remains perhaps the most influential photography book of the 20th century." Frank later expanded into...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth9 November 1924
CountrySwitzerland
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.
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I'd bet on Ben's ability to see what was coming around the next corner over just about anybody else.