biografia di Robert FRANK (1924-2019)
Personal data
Birth : 1924 - Zürich ZH, Switzerland
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : Switzerland - United States
Address
, United StatesRepresentatives
Alan Koppel Gallery – 210 West Chicago Avenue – Chicago IL, United States
Professional data
Work and Life
1969:Lives and works in New Scotland, Canada
1955 – 1957:Two-Year Travel across America
1953:Back to New York, NY, USA
1951:Back to Europe
1947:Moves to new York, NY, USA
1946:35mm rangefinder camera
1942:Apprenticeship
As freelance photographer contribution to magazines and newspapers: Life, look, Fortune and the New York Times, Harper’s Bazar, New York, NY, USA
Grants
1955
1955 : John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships , Bourse – New York NY, United States
Work
Categorie and medium
Sculpture-Volume : Sculpture, wood
Photography : Black & white photograph - Bromoil gelatin silver print - Gelatin silver print - Photograph
Audiovisual-Multimedia : 35 mm film - Video
Subject
childrenmen
fashion
portrait
publicity
Daily life
consumer society
urbanism
Works
The Americans | |
Medium : Photograph | |
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
Solo exhibitions
2005
MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo – Barcelona, Spain
02/09/2005 – 05/08/2005
2004
Robert Frank: Storylines
Tate Modern – London, United Kingdom
10/28/2004 – 01/23/2005
2002
The Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago IL, United States
11/02/2002 – 02/02/2003
2001
MFAH The Museum of Fine Arts – Houston TX, United States
2001
1998
Madison Art Center – New York NY, United States
12/06/1998 – 02/21/1999
1995
Retropective
Stedelijk Museum – Amsterdam, Netherlands
1995
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
Art shows / fairs
2006
Paris Photo n°10
Carrousel du Louvre – Paris, France
11/16/2006 – 11/19/2006
Represented by : Galerie Johannes Faber – Brahmsplatz 7 – Vienna, Austria
2005
Paris Photo n°9
Paris, France
11/17/2005 – 11/20/2005
Represented by : Galerie Johannes Faber – Brahmsplatz 7 – Vienna, Austria
2004
Art 35 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/16/2004 – 06/21/2004
Represented by : Robert Mann Gallery – Robert Mann Gallery 210 Eleventh Avenue, 10th floor – New York NY, United States
2003
Paris Photo, n°7
Carrousel du Louvre – Paris, France
11/13/2003 – 11/16/2003
Represented by : Galerie Johannes Faber – Brahmsplatz 7 – Vienna, Austria
Art 34 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/18/2003 – 06/23/2003
Represented by : Galerie Johannes Faber – Brahmsplatz 7 – Vienna, Austria
Art Chicago 2003
Navy Pier’s Festival Hall – Chicago IL, United States
05/09/2003 – 05/12/2003
Represented by : Alan Koppel Gallery – 210 West Chicago Avenue – Chicago IL, United States
2002
Paris Photo, n°6
Carrousel du Louvre – Paris, France
11/14/2002 – 11/17/2002
Art 33 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/12/2002 – 06/17/2002
Represented by : Galerie Johannes Faber – Brahmsplatz 7 – Vienna, Austria
2001
Art 32 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/13/2001 – 06/18/2001
Represented by : Scalo – 436 W, 15 th Str. – New York NY, United States
Group exhibitions
2003
Photographs of the Twentieth Century
Tate Modern – London, United Kingdom
06/05/2003 – 09/07/2003
2002
Sans commune mesure
CNP Centre National de la Photographie – Paris, France
09/11/2002 – 11/18/2002
Des hommes dans la ville
Musée Malraux – Le Havre, France
03/08/2002 – 05/13/2002
The Life of the City
MoMA Museum of Modern Art – New York NY, United States
02/28/2002 – 05/21/2002
2001
Open City: Street Photographs since 1950
MOMA Museum of Modern Art – Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
05/06/2001 – 07/15/2001