ARTFILM
Robert Frank retrospective |
Written 30 January |
Thursday 22 January, 17:00Jeu de Paume (Concorde), 75008 [map]
Robert Frank, the American photographer born in Switzerland in 1924 has played an important role in American photography and film. His most notable work, and one of the highlights of his abundant production of photographs and films, is the 1958 photographic book entitled The Americans, which was heavily influential in the post-war period.
In the early 1950s, when living in New York, Frank also produced a series of images of Paris, his vision sharpened by his distance from Europe. This exhibition proposes a dialogue between a selection of photographs of Paris, chosen by Robert Frank and Ute Eskildsen (presented at the Museum Folkwang in Essen) and the complete ensemble of photographs from The Americans, loaned for the occasion by the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris).
Extending the two photographic series, Paris and The Americans, a selection of his films will be shown in a special programme showing in the Auditorium and also within the exhibition — Pull My Daisy (1959, 28 minutes), one of Frank’s earlier films, will be showing this evening. The film, directed by Frank, was written and narrated by Kerouac, and starred Ginsberg and others from the Beat Generation. Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady, the film tells the story of a railway brakeman whose wife invites a respectable bishop over for dinner before the brakeman's bohemian friends crash the party with comic results. The Beat philosophy emphasized spontaneity which heavily influenced the style of the film.
| What: | Robert Frank retrospective |
| When: | Thursday 22 January, 17:00 |
| Where: | Jeu de Paume (Concorde), 1 place de la Concorde 75008 [map] |
| Transport: | Concorde |
| Cost: | 3-7EUR |
| Phone: | 01 47 03 12 50 |
| Web: | www.jeudepaume.org |
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