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ID: 500019916
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500019916
 
Record Type: Person
Frank, Robert (American photographer and filmmaker, 1924-2019)

Note: From 1940 to 1941, Frank worked as an apprentice in a Basel photographic studio and later as a photographer for Gloria Films in Zurich. He emigrated to the United States in 1947 and settled in New York City, contributing photographs to various publications. In 1948 he traveled to Peru and Bolivia, and from 1949 to 1951 he worked in England, Wales, United Kingdom and France. In 1955, Frank travelled across the United States taking photographs for his book 'The Americans.' From 1957 to 1969 he worked as a photographer, filmmaker, and independent producer in New York City, eventually moving to Nova Scotia in 1969 with his wife, artist June Leaf.

Names:
Frank, Robert (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
Frank, Robert (Dutch-P,NA)
Robert Frank (V,display)
Frank, Robert Louis (V)
פרנק, רוברט (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
Swiss

Roles:
artist (preferred)
photographer
filmmaker
collagist
cinematographer
video artist
documentary filmmaker

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Zurich (Zürich, Switzerland) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   1947 - 1968  New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)
active:   from 1969  Mabou (Nova Scotia, Canada) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
associate of ....  Delpire, Robert  
......................  (French editor, publisher, and curator, 1926-2017) [500404215]
collaborated with ....  Kerouac, Jack  
................................  (American writer, 1922-1969) [500290917]
collaborated with ....  Leslie, Alfred  
................................  (American painter, 1927-2023) [500006228]
colleague of ....  Mekas, Jonas  
......................  (American and Lithuanian filmmaker and poet, 1922-2019) [500094053]
spouse of ....  Leaf, June  
................  (American painter and sculptor, born 1929) [500029068]
student of ....  Eidenbenz, Hermann  
..................  (Swiss artist, 1902-1993, born India) [500464982]
teacher of ....  Gibson, Ralph  
..................  (American photographer, born 1939) [500094623]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Frank, Robert (I)

Biographies:
(American photographer and filmmaker, 1924-2019) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American and Swiss photographer and filmmaker; born Zurich (Switzerland), 1924) ..... [CCA]
(American (b. Switzerland), 1924) ..... [JPGM]
(American photographer, b.1924) ..... [BHA]
(American photographer) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, born 1924) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, born Switzerland 1924) ..... [MoMA]
(American photographer, born Switzerland, 1924) ..... [IMJ]
(Swiss photographer, 1924-) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
פרנק, רוברט ........ [IMJ]
......................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
Frank, Robert ........ [CCA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, JPGM Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred]
............................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
............................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
............................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
............................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
............................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) nr2002027404
............................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 29099
Frank, Robert Louis ........ [BHA Preferred, CCA, RKD, VP]
.......................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
.......................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 29099
Robert Frank ........ [CCA, GRISC, MoMA, VP]
..........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
..........................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)

Subject: ........ [BHA, CCA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, Grove Art, IMJ, JPGM, MoMA, RKD, VP]
....................  Auer, Encyclopédie des Photographes (1985)
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
....................  Frank, New York to Nova Scotia (1986)
....................  Frank, The Americans (1958)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: nr2002027404
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: nr2002027404
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
....................  Naylor, Contemporary Photographers (1988)
....................  Newhall, History of Photography (1982)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 29099
....................  Szarkowski, Photographer's Eye (1966)
....................  VIAF: Virtual International Authority File [online] (2009-) ID: 95803661
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) ID: Q467574; Q467574
 
Note:
English .......... [CCA, VP]
.......... Auer, Encyclopédie des Photographes (1985)
.......... Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 10 August 2005
.......... Naylor, Contemporary Photographers (1988)
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