Robert Frank - Frank Robert
Robert Frank - Frank Robert In March 1949, Robert Frank mailed a birthday gift to his mother in Switzerland: A maquette of a series of photographs he had made during a visit to Peru between June and…
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Robert Frank - Frank Robert
In March 1949, Robert Frank mailed a birthday gift to his mother in Switzerland: A maquette of a series of photographs he had made during a visit to Peru between June and December of the previous year. A few of the images are well known in Frank's oeuvre, but until now very few people have seen the entire series--which, in 1949, already displayed the hallmark of Frank's distinctive image-sequencing. Frank assembled an identical book for himself, and these two maquettes now reside in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
I didn't think of what would be the correct thing to do; I did what I felt good doing. Peru also exhibits an ease and flexibility that Frank himself confirms: I was very free with the camera. I was like an action painter.
Using a hand-held 35mm Leica camera, Frank documented the country's massive vistas,