portrait of this blog's author - by Stephen Blackman 2008

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

ROBERT FRANK

9 November 1924 - 9 September 2019



First wife Mary


One of the great counter culture hero artist photographer's of all time passes away aged 94

From one of the greatest books of photography of the sixties, if you see a copy, buy it!

A young Robert Frank















“… with one hand he sucked a sad poem out of America onto film.” – Jack Kerouac
from the introduction of Robert Frank’s “The Americans” (1959) 

 He photographed London and the UK too









not to mention the Rolling Stones legendary film 'C***Sucker Blues' which puts Pennebaker's 'Don't Look Now' into the shade somehow, less compromising and therefore almost unbroadcastable and as frank by name as frank by nature  . . . . . . 








Exiles on Main Street - The Rolling Stones -with cover by Robert Frank


his later work was more expressive and self exploratory




There won't be another one . . . . . . . 







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