로버트 프랭크

소개

로버트 프랭크(Robert Frank, 1924년 11월 9일 ~ 2019년 9월 9일)는 미국의 사진가이다. 스위스 취리히 출생으로, 1947년 미국으로 이주하여 1958년 대표작인 〈미국인들〉(Les Américains)을 발표하여 후속 사진가에 큰 영향을 주었다.

Robert Frank was a Swiss American photographer and documentary filmmaker. His most notable work, the 1958 book 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 nature of photography, what it could say and how it could say it. [ ... ] it remains perhaps the most influential photography book of the 20th century." Frank later expanded into film and video and experimented with manipulating photographs and photomontage.