Robert Frank: Hope Makes Visions
Cover of Robert Frank: Hope Makes Visions, 2024 © Pace Gallery
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Pace in New York, and in celebration of the centennial of Frank’s birth, Robert Frank: Hope Makes Visions presents an in-depth look at the photographer and filmmaker’s process across various media. Through a selection of his lesser-known photographs, collages, sketches, and maquettes from 1955 to 2016, a new portrait of the artist emerges, one that shows his commitment to growth and experimentation throughout his career. With a new text by Ocean Vuong, this volume is a sensitive homage to a canonical artist.
Contributors: Ocean Vuong, Shahrzad Kamel
Publisher: Pace Publishing
Publication date: 2024
Softcover
86 pages: 45 color images
12 x 9 ⅝ inches
9781948701785
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Considered one of the most influential figures in the history of photography, Frank redefined the aesthetic of both the still and the moving image via his pictures and films.
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Soon after his emigration to New York in 1947, Alexey Brodovitch hired Frank as a fashion photographer for Harper’s Bazaar. The position brought many occasions for travel, and Frank’s impressions of the United States, in comparison to other places, impacted his work. After receiving his first Guggenheim Fellowship in 1955, Frank embarked on a two-year trip across America during which he took over 28,000 pictures. Eighty-three of those images were ultimately published in Frank’s groundbreaking monograph The Americans, first by Robert Delpire in 1958 in Paris, and a year later by Grove Press in the United States. Frank’s unorthodox cropping, lighting, and sense of focus attracted criticism. His work, however, was not without supporters. Beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg felt a kinship with Frank and his interest in documenting the fabric of contemporary society. Eventually The Americans jettisoned Frank into a position of cultural prominence; he became the spokesperson for a generation of visual artists, musicians, and literary figures both in the United States and abroad.
For more information about the title and other titles from Pace Publishing, visit here. Frank’s exhibition of the same at Pace opened on November 15th and will be on view until December 21, 2024, at Pace Gallery 510 West 25th Street in New York. The magazine did a showcase of the exhibition, which can be found here. Please visit the Pace Gallery’s website here for more information about past, current, and future exhibits. Pace Gallery can be found on Instagram and Artsy, too.
