An interview with Robert Frank

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Photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank recalls his experience as a young artist, picking up and moving from a small town and Switzerland to New York City. He describes his early struggles, his determination, and how Beat Generation writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac showed him a different way of life. Video by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Cite this page as: SFMOMA, "An interview with Robert Frank," in Smarthistory, December 15, 2020, accessed November 7, 2024, https://smarthistory.org/sfmoma-talks-to-robert-frank/.