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Robert Frank was a Swiss photographer and documentary filmmaker, who became an American binational. 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 film and video and experimented with manipulating photographs and photomontage.
Birth Name
Robert Louis Frank
Born
Sunday, 09 November 1924
Died
Monday, 09 September 2019
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Don't Blink | Self | 2016 |
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man | Self | 2012 |
The Visual Language of Herbert Matter | Self | 2010 |
Day and Night | Hochzeitsfotograf | 2010 |
Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank | Self | 2004 |
Second Century | Robert Frank | 1999 |
The Brief | Solicitor | 1984 |
The South Bank Show | Self | 1978 |
60 Minutes | Himself - Professor of Economics, Cornell (segment "Living Large") / Himself - Professor of Economics, Cornell (segment "Living Large") (archive footage) | 1968 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Don't Blink | Self | 2016 |
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man | Self | 2012 |
The Visual Language of Herbert Matter | Self | 2010 |
Day and Night | Hochzeitsfotograf | 2010 |
Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank | Self | 2004 |
Second Century | Robert Frank | 1999 |
The Brief | Solicitor | 1984 |
The South Bank Show | Self | 1978 |
60 Minutes | Himself - Professor of Economics, Cornell (segment "Living Large") / Himself - Professor of Economics, Cornell (segment "Living Large") (archive footage) | 1968 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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The Sin of Jesus | 2013 |
Override | 2009 |
Alfred Leslie: Cool Man in a Golden Age | 2009 |
The Present | 1996 |
Last Supper | 1992 |
C'est vrai | 1990 |
Candy Mountain | 1988 |
This Song for Jack | 1983 |
Energy and How to Get It | 1981 |
Keep Busy | 1975 |
The Rolling Stones: Cocksucker Blues | 1972 |
Conversations in Vermont | 1971 |
About Me: A Musical | 1971 |
Life-Raft Earth | 1969 |
Me and My Brother | 1969 |
O.K. End Here | 1963 |
Pull My Daisy | 1959 |