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**From the author of the acclaimed James Brown biography__The One__comes the first in-depth biography of renowned photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank, best known for his landmark book__The Americans__.**As well-known as Robert Frank the photographer is, few can say they really know Robert Frank the man. Born and raised in wartime Switzerland, Frank discovered the power and allure of photography at an early age and quickly learned that the art meant significantly more to him than the money, success, or fame. The art was all, and he intended to spend a lifetime pursuing it.__American Witness__is the first comprehensive look at the life of a man who's as mysterious and evasive as he is prolific and gifted. Leaving his rigid Switzerland for the more fluid United States in 1947, Frank found himself at the red-hot social center of bohemian New York in the '50s and '60s, becoming friends with everyone from Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky to photographer Walker Evans, actor Zero Mostel, painter Willem de Kooning, filmmaker Jonas Mekas, Bob Dylan, writer Rudy Wirlitzer, jazz musicians Ornette Coleman and Charles Mingus, and more. Frank roamed the country with his young

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Author

R. J. Smith

Publisher

Da Capo Press, Incorporated

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780306823374

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Photography, Biography

Rating

4.3 / 5 (63 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14