Name: Robert Frank: HOLD STILL - keep going
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Author: Robert Frank
ISBN: 9783869309040

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Physical Book

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Author

Language

English

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

26.9 x 21.1 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.91 kg.

ISBN13

9783869309040

Synopsis "Robert Frank: HOLD STILL - keep going"

An exploration of the filmic elements in the photography of Robert FrankHold Still, Keep Going is the long-awaited reprint of the catalogue to Robert Frank's (born 1924) 2001 exhibition at the Museum Folkwang in Essen. Though the artist is best known for his seminal photobook The Americans (1959) and his experimental film Pull My Daisy (1959), until this publication, little scholarship existed on the intersection between Frank's work in the disciplines of photography and film. Hold Still, Keep Going fills that void, exploring the influence of film on Frank's photographic work, and the interaction between the still and moving image that has engaged the photographer and experimental filmmaker since the late 1950s. The book adopts a nonchronological approach, including photographs, film stills, 35mm filmstrips, as well as photomontages that present Frank's most famous series alongside less known work; from these varied contents, the volume offers revealing juxtapositions, rendering the seemingly disjointed arc of Frank's art more cohesive. Text, from handwritten phrases on photographs (of which "HOLD STILL--keep going" is but one example) to the dialogue in his films, emerges as a crucial tool, one that is also central to Frank's photo-diaries. Including a new essay from Tobia Bezzola, director of the Museum Folkwang, this edition highlights some of the more obscure work by perhaps the world's best-known living photographer, and is an essential addition to all photography and film collections.

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Robert Frank fue un fotógrafo y cineasta suizo-estadounidense considerado una de las figuras más influyentes de la fotografía documental del siglo XX. Nacido en Zúrich en 1924, emigró a Estados Unidos después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y desarrolló una mirada profundamente personal sobre la sociedad norteamericana. Su trabajo rompió con la fotografía documental clásica mediante imágenes espontáneas, encuadres imperfectos y una sensibilidad melancólica que capturaba desigualdad, soledad y contradicciones culturales. Frank observaba Estados Unidos como alguien fascinado y desconcertado al mismo tiempo, algo que terminó convirtiendo sus fotografías en un retrato mucho más honesto que cómodo. Digamos que no vino a fotografiar postales turísticas precisamente.

Su obra más célebre es The Americans, publicada originalmente en 1958, un fotolibro revolucionario compuesto por imágenes tomadas durante viajes por distintos estados norteamericanos gracias a una beca Guggenheim. El libro, inicialmente criticado por mostrar una visión áspera y poco idealizada del país, terminó transformándose en una referencia absoluta para generaciones de fotógrafos y artistas visuales. Frank también dirigió películas experimentales y documentales, explorando temas relacionados con identidad, memoria y contracultura, siempre desde una estética libre y profundamente autobiográfica.

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