Robert Frank, the Swiss-American photographer who rose to fame for the unflinching gaze he fixed on American society, has died at 94.
He passed away on Monday on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, confirmed Peter MacGill, whose Pace-MacGill Gallery has represented Frank since 1983.Harper’s Bazaar
art director Alexey Brodovitch in New York before traveling extensively through South America. Frank then split his time between New York and Europe, putting together his own hand-bound photography books. In 1955, Frank received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship to photograph his way across the United States for nine months. Instead of capturing historical sites and tourist attractions, Frank honed in on the small moments that made up the fabric of American life. His efforts turned into, a genre-defining photography book published in the U.S. in 1959, with an introduction from Jack Kerouac.
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