American witness : the art and life of Robert Frank /

American witness : the art and life of Robert Frank /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Smith, R. J., 1959- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Da Capo Press, 2017.
Description:	viii, 327 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portratis ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Frank, Robert, -- 1924- Frank, Robert, -- 1924- Photographers -- United States -- Biography. Photography, Artistic. Photographers. Photography, Artistic. United States. Biographies. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11375013

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Varying Form of Title:	Art and life of Robert Frank
ISBN:	9780306823367 0306823365
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-305) and index.
Summary:	"...merican 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.nd 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."--Dust jacket

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. "Brush"
2. Flags and Mirrors
3. A Step Away from Them
4. Road Trips and Mind Trips
5. Early Morning in the Universe
6. Like Jumping in the Water
7. First Thought, Best Thought
8. The Network of Human Mayonnaise
9. Touched by the Hand of God
10. New Projects
11. An Impressive Bunch of Guys
12. Finally, Reality
13. A Lucite Spaceship
14. Sick of Goodby's
15. Bobby Hot Dog
16. Detective Work
17. The American
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index