biografia di Robert FRANK (1924-2019)

Personal data


Birth : 1924 - Zürich ZH, Switzerland
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : Switzerland - United States

Address

, United States

Representatives

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

children
men
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

Bibliography (Selected)


On the artist


Periodicals

2002

What am I looking at?
in: Paris Photo Magazine International n° 23 p. 15
Paris, France
11/2002-12/2002

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