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Robert Frank
Hold Still- Keep Going
By Frank, Robert H. & Eskildsen, Ute & Beilenhoff, Wolfgang & Ribbat, Christoph
- ISBN
- 978-3-90824-740-1
- Publisher
- Scalo Publishers
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Reviewed on October 1, 2001
The Swiss-born Frank (who became an American citizen in 1963) is best known for his hugely influential The Americans, a book introduced by Jack Kerouac that documented the America he saw in the 1950s while on a Guggenheim Fellowship and that set a new standard for raw poetic realism in photography. Frank turned to film in the late Fifties firmly landing among the who's who of underground cinema and returned to still images in the Seventies, creating photographic constructions that often incorporate text, while continuing his film work. Much has been publi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
