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1987; International Photography Award, Hasselblad
Foundation, 1996; Cornell Capa Award, International
Center of Photography, New York, 2000. Honorary doc-
torate, University of Go ̈teborg, Sweden. Founds Andrea
Frank Foundation in New York, 1995 in memory of his
daughter. Lives in Mabou, Nova Scotia, Canada and
New York.

Individual Exhibitions


1961 Robert Frank, Photographer; Art Institute of Chicago;
Chicago, Illinois
1969 Robert Frank; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania
1976 Robert Frank; Photo-Galerie, Kunsthaus Zurich; Zur-
ich, Switzerland
1978 Robert Frank; The Photo Gallery, National Film Board
of Canada; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Robert Frank: An Exhibition of Photography and Films
1945–1977; Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University
of California at Santa Cruz; Santa Cruz, California
1980 The New American Filmmaker Series: Robert Frank;
Whitney Museum of American Art; New York, New York
1985 Robert Frank: Fotografias/Films 1948–1984; Sala Par-
pallo ́, Institucio ́Alfons e Magna ́nim; Valencia, Spain
Visions of Hope and Despair: Robert Frank’s Black-
and-White Photographs; Stanford University Museum
of Art; Stanford, California
1986 Robert Frank: New York to Nova Scotia; Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston, Texas and traveling to Museum
Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Robert Frank: Etats d’urgence; Centre national de
photographie, Palais de Tokyo; Paris, France
Robert Frank and American Politics; Akron Art
Museum; Akron, Ohio
1988 In the Margins of Fiction: The Film of Robert Frank;
American Film Institute, John F. Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts; Washington, D.C.
The Lines of My Hand; Museum fu ̈r Gestaltung; Zur-
ich, Switzerland
1994 Robert Frank: Moving Out;National Gallery of Art;
Washington, D.C. and traveling to Yokohama museum
of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich,
Switzerland, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Nether-
lands, Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, California
1997 Robert Frank: Les Ame ́ricains; Maison Euope ́enne de
la Photographie; Paris, France
2000 Hold Still––Keep Going; Museum Folkwang; Essen,
Germany and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina
Sofia; Madrid, Spain


Group Exhibitions


1950 51 American Photographers; Museum of Modern Art;
New York, New York
1953 Post-War European Photography; Museum of Modern
Art; New York, New York


1955 The Family of Man; Museum of Modern Art; New
York, New York
1962 Photographs by Harry Callahan and Robert Frank;
Museum of Modern Art; New York, New York
1967 12 Photographers of the American Social Landscape;
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; Waltham, Mas-
sachusetts
1974 Photographie in der Schweiz—1840 bis heute;
Kunsthaus Zurich; Zurich, Switzerland
1981 Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence;
Yale University Art Gallery; New Haven, Connecticut

Selected Works
Park Avenue Rolls Royce, 1948
Beaufort, South Carolina, 1955 (fromThe Americans)
Charleston, South Carolina, 1955 (fromThe Americans)
Funeral—St. Helena, South Carolina, 1955 (fromThe Amer-
icans)
Parade—Hoboken, New Jersey, 1955 (fromThe Americans)
Political Rally—Chicago, 1956 (also known as ‘‘Chicago
Convention,’’ fromThe Americans)
U.S. 285, New Mexico, 1956 (fromThe Americans)
Pull My Daisy, 1959 (film)
William Buckley, 1962
Monument for my Daughter Andrea, April 21, 1954/Decem-
ber 28, 1974, 1974
Sick of Goodby’s, 1978
Los Angeles–February 4th–I wake up turn on T.V., 1979
Mabou, 1981
Hold Still—Keep Moving, 1989
St. Rita’s Hospital #401, Sidney, Nova Scotia, January 20,
1991

Further Reading
Alexander, Stuart.Robert Frank: A Bibliography, Filmogra-
phy, and Exhibition Chronology 1946–1985. Tuscon, AZ:
Center for Creative Photography, 1986.
Bennett, Edna. ‘‘Black and White Are the Colors of Robert
Frank.’’Aperture, 9 1961:
Eskildsen, Ute, ed.Hold Still––Keep Going. Zurich: Scalo,
2001.
Frank, Robert.Les Ame ́ricain. Paris: Robert Delpire, 1958.
lst American edition:The Americans, preface by Jack
Kerouac, New York: Grove Press, 1959; reprinted Zur-
ich: Scalo, 2000.
———. Frank, Robert.The Lines of My Hand. Zurich:
Parkett/Der Alltag, 1989. (revised and enlarged edition)
———. Frank, Robert. Robert Frank. Paris: Centre
national de la photographie, 1983.
Greenough, Sarah, and Philip Brookman. Robert
Frank. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art,
1994.
Tucker, Anne, and Philip Brookman.Robert Frank: New
York to Nova Scotia. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts,
1986.
Wurlitzer, Rudolph.Robert Frank, Aperture History of
Photography Series. Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1976.

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