Robert Frank

Robert frank is the person who revolutionized the approach to photography after Second World War with series of 83 pictures ‘The Americans’ (1959). His photos seem to be accidental in terms of composition focus and framing – kind of snapshots, however each of them tell story itself. Frank shows here the USA from completely different perspective – shows the real America – multicultural, anonymous people in normal, daily activities. Here you cannot see any aspects of ‘American dream’, each of photo seems to be of context in a way but complete; accident but just right in the same time. He used too shoot holding the camera in the hip position or hiding it under the jacket, what makes his works even more real and natural.


As he said ‘There is one thing which a photo has to have – the human nature – this kind of photography is called realism, but realism is to enough – there must be a vision as well and these two things can make a good photo.



‘The Americans’ album

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3673127/Robert-Frank-melancholy-and-menace.html

Hoy H. H., (2005), The Photo Book, Warsaw: National Geographic Society