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American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frank (edició 2017)

de R. J. Smith

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From the author of the acclaimed James Brown biography The One comes the first in-depth biography of renowned photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank, best known for his landmark book The Americans. As well-known as Robert Frank the photographer is, few can say they really know Robert Frank the man. Born and raised in wartime Switzerland, Frank discovered the power and allure of photography at an early age and quickly learned that the art meant significantly more to him than the money, success, or fame. The art was all, and he intended to spend a lifetime pursuing it. American Witness is the first comprehensive look at the life of a man who's as mysterious and evasive as he is prolific and gifted. Leaving his rigid Switzerland for the more fluid United States in 1947, Frank found himself at the red-hot social center of bohemian New York in the '50s and '60s, becoming friends with everyone from Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky to photographer Walker Evans, actor Zero Mostel, painter Willem de Kooning, filmmaker Jonas Mekas, Bob Dylan, writer Rudy Wirlitzer, jazz musicians Ornette Coleman and Charles Mingus, and more. Frank roamed the country with his young family, taking roughly 27,000 photographs and collecting 83 of them into what is still his most famous work: The Americans. His was an America nobody had seen before, and if it was harshly criticized upon publication for its portrait of a divided country, the collection gradually grew to be recognized as a transformative American vision. And then he turned his back on certain success, giving up photography to reinvent himself as a film and video maker. Frank helped found the American independent cinema of the 1960s and made a legendary film with the Rolling Stones. Today, the nonagenarian is an embodiment of restless creativity and a symbol of what it costs to remain original in America, his life defined by never repeating himself, never being satisfied. American Witness is a portrait of a singular artist and the country that he saw.… (més)
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Títol:American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frank
Autors:R. J. Smith
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The Art and Life of Robert Frank interested me before I even started reading only because of James Franco’s portrayal of Franco on GH back back a few years. I looked up the term “Bobby Frank and ran into Robert Frank, artist and videographer, the same man whom had done the beautiful and truthful photos of everyday life and compiled it into the book The Americans.

Author R.J. Smith does a fine job of sharing the elusivity of Robert Frank and makes you feel his boldness when getting the shots he wants of what captures his artistic eye. A boldness that I admire, I myself being that secretily bold yet trying to be unobtrusive.
Frank used his camera for truth and weilded it as a if it was a weapon for “standing up for one’s [him] self and what he believed.

I could feel the tension when Mr. Smith would write about Frank’s father. He wasn’t how Robert wanted to be, obstinate and selfpossed without fitting in, and yet in a way Robert did become that in the same mold but differently because he didn’t like the limelight. You could lose him as a friend if you talked about him to the press. His privacy was important. I don’t blame him.
I was intrigued by that privacy and still he was a great friend, caring. I don’t think others imagine how someone could be famous and still want to be private . This book describes that character trait perfectly.

Frank’s talent was unobtainable by the average person, he saw things that most people miss. Reminds me of the photographer, Dorothea Lang and her eye for the human plight.
A few things that surprised me- Frank working for The Marx’s Brothers as his first job in his new country. I feel that the various jobs that Robert Frank held could only happen by someone who had drive but also that opportunities seemed given by drive not by a degree. It’s the American Dream to get the jobs you want. Too bad it takes either someone you know or a degree to get it now, not just as Frank did, walk in, prove your worth and wow the boss with your product. Even in the book it showed that changing as bosses started training their soon to be employees by being teaches at the local colleges. I see it like having an apprenticeship and paying the boss for it. Such a novelty idea back then. Now it’s a given. Still it has hand to mouth when the jobs were far and few between assignments.
Another thing that surprised me was the inclusion of other photographers to the book, usually you get people to talk in a biography about your primary subject. Mr. Smith included Frank’s fellow photographers as their own subject and intertwining with Frank. I found that refreshing and informative of the years that Frank was working in. Like an open journal of the talent of any given year.
I enjoyed this book. I liked the writing of RJ Smith and will likely read more of his work.
  SandraBrower | Oct 27, 2019 |
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From the author of the acclaimed James Brown biography The One comes the first in-depth biography of renowned photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank, best known for his landmark book The Americans. As well-known as Robert Frank the photographer is, few can say they really know Robert Frank the man. Born and raised in wartime Switzerland, Frank discovered the power and allure of photography at an early age and quickly learned that the art meant significantly more to him than the money, success, or fame. The art was all, and he intended to spend a lifetime pursuing it. American Witness is the first comprehensive look at the life of a man who's as mysterious and evasive as he is prolific and gifted. Leaving his rigid Switzerland for the more fluid United States in 1947, Frank found himself at the red-hot social center of bohemian New York in the '50s and '60s, becoming friends with everyone from Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky to photographer Walker Evans, actor Zero Mostel, painter Willem de Kooning, filmmaker Jonas Mekas, Bob Dylan, writer Rudy Wirlitzer, jazz musicians Ornette Coleman and Charles Mingus, and more. Frank roamed the country with his young family, taking roughly 27,000 photographs and collecting 83 of them into what is still his most famous work: The Americans. His was an America nobody had seen before, and if it was harshly criticized upon publication for its portrait of a divided country, the collection gradually grew to be recognized as a transformative American vision. And then he turned his back on certain success, giving up photography to reinvent himself as a film and video maker. Frank helped found the American independent cinema of the 1960s and made a legendary film with the Rolling Stones. Today, the nonagenarian is an embodiment of restless creativity and a symbol of what it costs to remain original in America, his life defined by never repeating himself, never being satisfied. American Witness is a portrait of a singular artist and the country that he saw.

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