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The Film and Video Work of Robert Frank A decision: I put my Leica in a cupboard. Enough of lying in wait, pursuing, sometimes catching the essence of the black and the white, the knowledge where God is. I make films. Now I speak to the people in my viewfinder. Not simple and not especially successful. At the end of the 1950s, photographer Robert Frank decided that he was over with photography and became a filmmaker. Only in the 1970s he would start to occasionally take stills again (first with a Polaroid camera). Until now, Frank has created more than 25 films and videos, some of them…mehr

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The Film and Video Work of Robert Frank A decision: I put my Leica in a cupboard. Enough of lying in wait, pursuing, sometimes catching the essence of the black and the white, the knowledge where God is. I make films. Now I speak to the people in my viewfinder. Not simple and not especially successful. At the end of the 1950s, photographer Robert Frank decided that he was over with photography and became a filmmaker. Only in the 1970s he would start to occasionally take stills again (first with a Polaroid camera). Until now, Frank has created more than 25 films and videos, some of them classics of the New American Cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. In his films, Frank amalgamated documentary, fiction, and autobiography, cutting across genres, defying each and every law of Hollywood in his relentless search for truth. In a time where the crass commercialism of Mainstream films visual grammar seems to reign supreme, Franks film and video work appears to be his most radical and visionary legacy. frank films fills a long overdue gap by providing a comprehensive overview of Franks films. Essays by Amy Taubin, Philip Brookman, Stefan Griseman, Bert Rebhandl, Thomas Müssiggang, Kent Jones, and Michael Barchet/Pia Neuman discuss the history and the aesthetics of Franks film work. Shorter essays by various authors examine every film and video by Frank in detail. The book offers a visually unique approach to Franks films: at his request only new stills taken from video tapes were used. The numerous video images add up to a visual essay on Franks cinema that enters in an engaging dialogue with his photographic work, in particular his stills created since the 1970s.
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Die Filme von Robert Frank, den Daniel Kothenschulte zu den Vertretern des "cinema direct", der Handkamerabewegung der frühen 60er Jahre zählt, seien äußerst selten und nie zusammenhängend zu sehen, beklagt er. Eine Ausnahme machte kürzlich die Grazer 'Diagonale', wo laut Kothenschulte eine richtige Frank-Retrospektive zu sehen war. Diesem Umstand sei nun das Zustandekommen dieses Buches als Begleitbuch zu verdanken. Ein Buch über Frank, der ja auch ein Pionier der Fotobuchform in der Kunst sei, stelle hohe gestalterische Ansprüche, vermutet der Rezensent und kann kaum glauben, dass das von Brigitta Burger-Utzer und Stefan Grissemann herausgegebene Buch ohne Mitwirkung des Künstlers zustande kam. Ein einzige Vorgabe habe es von dessen Seite gegeben, berichtet Kothenschulte: es durfte kein einziges publiziertes Filmfoto verwendet werden. Stattdessen konnten beliebig viele Videostills gezogen werden, die einem zumindest, räumt Kothenschulte ein, "eine Bestätigung jener Ahnung" geben, Frank gehe es um eine subjektive künstlerische Zeugenschaft, die weder streng subjektivistisch noch rein dokumentarisch zu verstehen sei. Franks Arbeit rühre an die Grenzen zwischen reinem Fotojournalismus und dokumentarisch geschulter Fotokunst, ein Thema, das Kothenschulte in Zeiten digitaler Handkameras aktueller denn je erscheint und dringend weiterer ästhetischer Reflexion wie in diesem Buch bedarf.

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