Robert Frank

Book Review: “America and Other Myths” — Sucking “a Sad Poem Right out of America onto Film.”

August 28, 2024
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In her fine book, Lisa Volpe examines mid-’50s picture-making expeditions taken across the U.S. by photographers Robert Frank and Todd Webb.

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Film Reconsideration: The Beats’s “Pull My Daisy” at 60

September 29, 2019
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You can go home again, daddy-o, but you’re not the same person you were the first time around.

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Book Review: “American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frank”

December 2, 2017
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Robert Frank had dared overturn the central conceit of the great photographs of the Farm Administration 1930s; that the poor were noble creatures.

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