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Robert Frank: Life Goes On

MoMA's exhibition on Robert Frank, marking the centenary of his birth, corrects the tendency to reduce the photographer's work to a single book, The Americans.

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JONAS CUENIN
October 23, 2024

Wednesday October 23, 2024

Summary

MoMA’s centennial exhibition dedicated to Robert Frank challenges the narrow view of reducing the photographer’s oeuvre to his seminal work, The Americans. The exhibition Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue counters the cult-like focus to spotlight his later works and his lesser-known avant-garde filmmaking career.

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