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Is Franks work (in particular 'The Americans') a more accurate depiction of his loneliness whilst travelling around the country and experiencing things very much on the perimiter of the American way of life? Of course it is a subjective experience but where the results more propoganda than truth?
Horvitz
Horvitz who? I don't understand the english very well, when I read the line "The car was without proper title (it was legally owned by Peggy Guggenheim) and Horvitz was shortly arrested for possession of a stolen automobile." I don't understand who is Horvitz no mentioned before. --
65.23.243.7516:06, 19 December 2006 (UTC)reply
I have no idea how this happened, nor where this Horvitz talk came from. As for Peggy Guggenheim, perhaps someone extrapolated from Guggenheim Fellowship. Frank actually bought the car from his friend, the picture editor, Ben Schultz. I have asked a number of the other Frank specialists and no one knows about a Horvitz. I am Stuart Alexander, author of the Robert Frank bibliography listed in the Bibliography.
6tuart (
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22:34, 28 November 2007 (UTC)reply
I can't say if that particular film merits discussion in the article, but the article did lack a link to his filmography at IMDB.com -- it shows 21 films that he directed. I've added the link, for now.
TheMindsEye05:10, 3 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Changed his birth date on the 'April 6' page
I noticed that Frank's birth date was listed as 1968 in the
April 6 calendar article, but this article about him makes it clear that his birth year was 1924.
Hurrmic12:54, 6 April 2007 (UTC)reply
I think it might be a different Frank who died—the
April 6 listing described him as an "author/poet," which is not this Frank. I removed the listing pending
attribution of the claim that he has died to a reliable source.
Postdlf13:25, 6 April 2007 (UTC)reply
Walker Evans's Sponsorship of Frank's Guggenheim Application
John Szarkowski's essay in his last book, "John Szarkowski: Photographs", makes clear that
Walker Evans, while sponsoring Frank's application for a 1955
Guggenheim Fellowship, was simultaneously that Foundation's secret referee for photography applications.
Frank's Relationship with Kerouac
Can anyone please tell me whether Robert Frank knew Kerouac or was aware of any beat writers before he began work on The Americans. It says in the wikipedia article that he did, but I have found conflicting information on other internet sites. Sources on where to find more information regarding Frank's early relationships with beat generation writers would also be extremely helpful.--
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"meaningless blur, grain, muddy exposures, drunken horizons and general sloppiness"
The article says the quoted criticism was published in Popular Photography. The
Guardian article, referenced at the end of the paragraph, attributes it to Practical Photography (I don't know whether Practical Photography is meant, as that British magazine was only first published the same year Grove Press published The Americans in the US). In the obituaries, I can find a lot of attribution to "Popular Photography", but those writers may have taken this from Wikipedia. The Washington Post 's obituary quotes Popular Photography as writing “a wart-covered picture of America by a joyless man”. Anyway, I haven't solved this yet, maybe someone can find the original quotes from the archives of these magazines? Currently, the quoted magazine doesn't correspond with the title quoted in the given source. ---
Sluzzelintalk18:28, 10 September 2019 (UTC)reply
Collections
Would it be helpful to start a section on the Robert Frank page listing the locations for major collections of Frank's work? This is popular on other artist and photographer pages. For instance, the Smithsonian, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art all have important Robert Frank collections. If there are other collections that should be included, please add them here.
Sdylanewing (
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16:13, 11 September 2019 (UTC)reply
"Frank met Beat writer Jack Kerouac on the sidewalk outside a party"
There is conflicting information about this from
Joyce Johnson, who describes introducing Kerouac to Frank in the waiting room of Viking Press, Kerouac's publisher, while Kerouac was in conference with his editors.[1] The Wikipedia article's source is a
New York Times Magazine article that quotes Frank as saying that he met Kerouac ‘‘at a New York party where poets and Beatniks were. Some painters. Everything happened downtown.’’
I would emphasize that the source has Frank saying "at a New York party." The editor has groundlessly extrapolated "on the sidewalk outside a party" from the
Times Magazine piece, so I plan to correct this. I also plan to cite Johnson, as "Another version of their meeting is provided by Joyce Johnson, Kerouac's lover at the time."
Larry Koenigsberg (
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22:40, 26 June 2020 (UTC)reply
"I met Jack Kerouac on a hot summer night - a party in New York City. We sat down on the sidewalk. I showed Jack the photographs for The Americans. He said: 'Sure I can write something about these pictures...'" This is a quote attributed to Robert Frank on the back dust jacket of the 1998 Scalo edition of The Americans. The main text should describe it something like "Frank recounted meeting Kerouac at a party in New York City..." and so on; Johnson's different account can be mentioned in a footnote. postdlf (talk)
23:54, 26 June 2020 (UTC)reply
I have removed the list of exhibitions per
MOS:ART#Exhibitions, but am preserving them here in case anyone would like to use them as the basis of future research.
^Sabine Buchwald: Die anarchische Kraft des Fotografen. In der Akademie der Bildenden Künste sind Robert Franks Bilder als gigantische Wandzeitung zu sehen. Der Katalog dazu ist eine besondere SZ, in:
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Nr. 270, 24. November 2014, Seite R4.