Famous+Photographer

=**Robert Frank**= Robert was born on November 9, 1924 in Zurich Switzerland. He is an American citizen, and a very important figure in photography as well as film. He is most recognized for his photobook called "The Americans" made in 1958. He was born into a very rich jewish family. To get away from the fear and feelings from World War 2 he started taking pictures, he trained under a few photographers before he made it on his own. He emigrated to the united states in 1947. He got a job in New York as a fashion photographer. He then set off to travel in Europe and South America, he then returned in 1950 and preformed in the group 51 American photographers in the museum of modern art. From then he got married and had two children. He took 28,000 photos and only 83 shots made it into his Album "The Americans" taken from a series of shots from all over America, the pictures are made to represent what Robert thought the average American portraits. I guess his influences are WW2, and The American culture. He wanted to recreate it in photography, He also was influenced by Walker Evans. His genres were Documentary, Portrait, and Land.











In a lot of Robert's photos he has many lines and patterns. Most of his pictures from the album The Americans are portraits. They have deep meanings beyond the actual picture. These pictures above are all from the album The Americans, which is Robert's most recognized piece of work. His photographs in this album are mostly taken outside, so he used natural sun light in his photographs, by the looks of these photos the light is always behind the camera.

Nice work. I'd like to see more comments specifically directed towards the images you have chosen. 48/55