Robert Frank (November 9, 1924 – September 9, 2019) was a Swiss photographer and documentary filmmaker, who became an American binational. His most notable work, the 1958 record titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider’s view of American society. Critic Sean O’Hagan, writing in The Guardian in 2014, said The Americans “changed the flora and fauna of photography, what it could say and how it could tell it. [ … ] it remains perhaps the most influential photography tape of the 20th century.” Frank difficult expanded into film and video and experimented once manipulating photographs and photomontage.
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