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IWd IWdjW<[ Bei7d][b[i IWlWddW^ D[mEhb[Wdi >ekijed Ij$F[j[hiXkh] C_Wc_ 1924 1946 November 9: Robert Louis Frank is Makes spiral-bound book 40 Fotos, born in Zurich, Switzerland, the incorporating original photographs second son of Regina and Hermann in various genres. Frank. Travels to Milan, Paris, and Strasbourg. 1931 – 1937 May – August: Works for Graphic Attends Gabler School, Zurich. Atelier H., R. and W. Eidenbenz, Map and Basel. 1937 – 1940 Chronology Attends Lavater Secondary School, 1947 Zurich. February 19 or 20: Departs Antwerp Sarah Gordon and Paul Roth on S.S. James Bennett Moore bound for Rotterdam and New York City. 1940 March 14: Arrives in New York, finds 8kjj[ Studies French at the Institut an apartment opposite Rockefeller Jomini, Payerne. Center, and lives briefly with the Note on Chronology designer and photographer Herbert Matter and his wife, Mercedes, in This chronology focuses on Frank’s 1941 Greenwich Village. Later moves to 53 :[jhe_j early years, with an emphasis on January: Begins informal apprentice- East Eleventh Street in Manhattan. D[mOeha9_jo 9b[l[bWdZ activities and associations related ship with photographer and graphic 9^_YW]e Late March / early April: Visits Henri to The Americans. It is indebted designer Hermann Segesser in Cartier-Bresson exhibition at the to Stuart Alexander, Robert Frank: Zurich (until March 1942). IWd Summer: Undertakes basic military training in Losone, Switzerland. 1948 1950 September: Delpire publishes seven March 8 – 16: Travels to Caerau, Wales, Spring: Sees Edward Steichen’s first February 7: Arrives in New York on of Frank’s photographs in a special to photograph at the Gee coal mine. large group exhibition as director the S.S. Edam. issue of Neuf devoted to the circus, Influenced by Richard Llewellyn’s of the Department of Photography “Magie du cirque.” How Green Was My Valley, Frank Meets Walker Evans through Jason centers his essay on the miner Ben at MoMA, In and Out of Focus: October: Meets Steichen in Zurich Harvey, a painter and lamp designer. James, living with him and follow- A Survey of Today’s Photography, and arranges for him to meet Swiss ing him throughout his days. which includes work by Faurer and Meets Steichen at MoMA. photographers for possible inclusion is designed by Matter. in upcoming MoMA exhibitions March 16: Sails with his family to June: Marries Mary Lockspeiser. June – December: Travels to Central Post-War European Photography and New York on the S.S. United States. and South America, stopping briefly The Family of Man; together they Rents apartment at 130 West in Cuba, Panama, Brazil, and Bolivia, 1951 visit Jakob Tuggener. After Steichen’s Twenty-third Street in Manhattan. departure, Frank makes three copies and roaming extensively in Peru, Frank’s portrait of Norman Mailer Summer: Makes the first of many of Black White and Things, a spiral- making 35mm black-and-white appears on back cover dust jacket trips with his family to Province bound book, designed by his friend negatives and 2 W-by-2 W-inch of Mailer’s Barbary Shore. town, MA, which continue through Werner Zryd, with thirty-four color transparencies. the 1960s. Steichen purchases at least two photographs made in America, Peru, December 21: Writes to Steichen Frank photographs for MoMA. England, France, Spain, and Italy. December: Three of Frank’s photo- requesting to see him and asking his He subsequently gives one copy to graphs win prizes in the black-and- February 7: Son, Pablo, is born. opinion of the Peru photographs: his parents and one to Steichen. white category of Popular Photog- “From all my work done so far — I do August: Frank documents people raphy’s 1953 International Pictures November 17: Frank and family travel like these pictures the best. It is who work on his block of Eleventh Contest. Judges include Irving Penn, to London, where they live in the not difficult to photograph in such Street near University Place for a Arthur Rothstein, W. Eugene Smith, Hampstead. Meets photographer a wonderful country.” photographic essay titled “People and Steichen. Bill Brandt. Photographs bankers in You Don’t See,” which he enters in Frank’s photograph The Wall the financial district of London. published in U.S. Camera Annual Life’s Contest for Young Photogra- 1954 1949, edited by Tom Maloney. phers. Winners are announced in December: Delpire publishes twenty- Life, November 26. The essay, which eight of Frank’s photographs from Frank is represented by an agency includes fifteen captioned photo- Peru and Bolivia in a photographic called Gamma, run by Ben Schultz, 1949 graphs, fails to win, but Frank essay, “Indiens des Hauts-Plateaux,” Byron Dobell, and Edna Bennett. in Neuf, with text by Georges Makes two spiral-bound books with wins second prize of $1,250 in the Arnaud. April 21: Daughter, Andrea, is born. thirty-nine photographs from his individual pictures category. trip to Peru; gives one to his mother Steichen was a judge. July: Frank and family travel to Jay, NY, for July 4; makes the first and the other to Brodovitch. November: Leaves New York for 1953 photograph that will be included in Paris, where he meets Mary and Meets artist Mary Lockspeiser. Frank mostly gives up fashion The Americans (Americans 17). Pablo on November 8. photography but continues as a March 30: Departs for Europe on the September 16: Photographs Orthodox December 9: Arrives in London, freelance magazine photojournalist S.S. Rouen. Meets photographer Jews performing the ceremony where he photographs until with occasional advertising assign- Elliott Erwitt on board. of tashlikh, throwing bread crumbs December 14. ments, working for Charm (until April: Arrives in Switzerland; visits 1955 and 1958 – 1965), Look, and into the East River on Rosh his parents and photographs the McCall’s as well as Advertising Age, Hashanah; one photograph from Landsgemeinde in Hundwil. 1952 Esquire, Fortune, House and Garden, this series will become Yom Kippur — East River, New York City Frank and his family move to Life, Mademoiselle (1960 – 1964), July 31: Arrives in France, where he Pageant, Seventeen, Show, Vogue, (Americans 16). is based in Paris for the remainder 19 rue Victor Massé in Paris. Western Advertising, and Western September: Photographs the of his stay; Lockspeiser briefly joins Steichen publishes Frank’s photo- Advertising Week. rodeo at Madison Square Garden him there. While there, he meets graph of a white line on Thirty- (Americans 65). photographers Louis Stettner and fourth Street as the cover of a During this year and next Frank Édouard Boubat. MoMA bulletin devoted to the and Mary become friends with Jan October 21: With significant con- Department of Photography. Müller, John Grillo, Lester John- August 18 – 24: Travels to Spain. ceptual and editorial assistance son, Miles and Barbara Forst, Robert from Evans, Frank applies for a March 30: Frank and his family go to September 30 – October 16: Travels to Beauchamp, Felix Pasilis, Allen fellowship from the John Simon Spain, where they will live until Italy and the south of France with Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso. Guggenheim Memorial Founda- August, based at 33 Eugenia Vines, 366 Erwitt. tion. Brodovitch, Evans, Alexander Grao de Valencia. Frank photographs January: Arnold Kübler includes two Liberman, Meyer Schapiro, and December: Makes unique book of in Barcelona, Andraitx (on the island Frank photographs from Black White Steichen serve as references. In the seventy-four photographs of Paris of Majorca), and Málaga. Works on and Things in the periodical Du. application he notes that Delpire for Mary. Uses an intricate layout an essay in Valencia about bull- February / early March: Frank photo- has agreed to publish his results with inscriptions in both French fighters, which goes unpublished. graphs top-hatted bankers walking in France. and English. August 8: Frank and his family return the streets of “the City,” the October 22: Photographs the “Toy to France. financial district of London. Ball,” a charity benefit for the Late August: Meets publisher Robert blind at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Delpire in Paris. (Americans 67). Map and Chronology 367 , - - CT -inch -inch 8 ⁄ 5 , to photo-, to NY by-9 - , with text by , with and Leslie including fourteenincluding Continues to refine to Continues DC — Makes a brief to Makes trip Delpire publishes publishes Delpire Photographs the Frank and Mary and drive Frank to 17: – Meets to with Evans Frank and family move family to and Frank spring: Travels to New to Haven, Travels – Returns to Jay, Jay, to Returns Evans agrees write to Evans Late summer: September 8: Summer: January 21: June 11: July 4: October: out on the floor. Starts out on floor. the working on sequence. on his Guggenheim project. Guggenheim on his Makes which he groups by he subject groups which and discuss publication of his photo publication of his discuss Winter 1957 the 767 rolls of film shot for his workshot his for of film rolls 767 the tion of Dwight D. Eisenhower and and tion of Dwight Eisenhower D. photograph last the be to included to photographto cere- graduation The Americans (Americans The 59). Americans in ment, often with staples, or spreads including Alfred Milton Leslie, including de Kooning. Willem and Resnick, in his book; his in completes preliminary introduction book. Frank’s to photographs that Frank made in in made Frank photographs that Bolivia Peru. and Pennsylvania, photographing in in photographing Pennsylvania, his girlfriend see to his inaugura- the makes M. Frank Nixon. Richard graphs; contactsgraphs; editors at Viking graph July 4 celebrations; again again 4 celebrations; July graph hanging photographs large the maquette. Democratic Convention in National 8 an makes graphs; by Werner Bischof, Frank, and and Frank, Bischof, by Werner Verger Pierre monies at Yale (Americans 21). (Americans 21). monies at Yale Georges photographs and Arnaud 8-by-10-inch prints working of images, thousand one approximately attaches apart- of his walls the to and making contact making and sheets from Chicago (Americans 3,Chicago 51, 58). and Random House; Random and writes introductionan book. the to an area that houses many artists, houses many that area an April: August 13 selection sequence and of images sequence of ninety-two photo Indiens pasIndiens morts Washington, Washington, William Faulkner’s agent to solicit to agent Faulkner’s William Spends summer developing film developing film summer Spends Ashland, Centralia, and Shenandoah. and Centralia, Ashland, American flag. 34 Third Avenue near Tenth Street, Tenth near 34 Avenue Third . NE (Americans ID Frank and and Frank Photographs outside , arriving there by there May , arriving Photographs at the Photographs opening Photographs opening Mary and the children Mary children the and MT Photographs in Burbank Burbank Photographs in 11: Receives a renewal of his – With support the of Evans, May 1957. May – Early May: February: December 26: March 3 March: Mid-March to late April: January 26: on U.S. 40, through Elko (Americans Elko on U.S. 40, through develop film. during the premiere of The Man premiere the during for a renewal of his Guggenheim Guggenheim for a renewal of his fellowship. 1956 to Butte,to through Wyoming on U.S. to Wyoming 20 through the Beverlythe Beverly Theater in Hills of movie the night Helen of Troy From UtahFrom north he heads on U.S. return to New York. Frank drives to return New to Frank York. Nevada across (Americans 81), Reno his family live with family photographerhis Frank uses Miller’s darkroom to darkroom to uses Miller’s Frank Heading through Iowa Chicago through to Heading U.S. 52 and Indianapolis to U.S. 41 probablyNew by June. early York, North Platte Lincoln (Americans 30), Pan-Pacificin LosAuditorium with the Goldenwith the (Americans Arm 66). Guggenheim fellowship for May for May fellowship Guggenheim Ohio and Pennsylvania. Returns to to Returns Pennsylvania. and Ohio General MotorsGeneral Motorama at the Casper and Lusk, then to Ogallala, Ogallala, to Lusk, then and Casper at the Fox Wilshire Beverly Hills Beverly Hills at Wilshire Fox the and conceptual and editorial editorial conceptual and and from he Mary, applies assistance April 12: Wayne Miller and his family at family his and Miller Wayne (Americans 60) and Hollywood and (Americans 60) (Americans 14). (Americans 79), he turns south he on turns (Americans 79), through then (Americans 82), 70, (Americans 64), and Omaha, (Americans Omaha, 64), and San Francisco (Americans 57, 68, 72). 68, (Americans 57, 72). Francisco San 191 through Blackfoot, through 191 10 Highland Court near Orinda, in 10 Highland 1956 15 (Americans 7, 15, 26, 41). He travels He travels 15, (Americans 41). 26, 15 7, Angeles (Americans 11). 32), and on U.S. 91 (Americans 49) on U.S. (Americans and 91 49) 32), 31) to Salt to Lake City31) (Americans 54). Theater (Americans 9). - SC Photographs (Americans 40). NY early fall: / Travels south the along Travels With Mary, makes a trip a trip With makes Mary, Frank drives south to Miami drives south Frank Miami to (Americans 75), and Columbia Columbia and (Americans 75), (Americans 23). At the sugges- the At (Americans 23). November: Late summer Summer: October: on U.S. 285 (Americans 36) to Santa to (Americanson 36) U.S. 285 city (Americans 28, 34, 20, 39, 48, darkroom. wood, for where they remain NC cans 52). cans down southeastern the coast, cans 22, 55), and St. Helena, St. and 22,cans 55), questioned for several hours by ville (Americans 38), Charleston (Americansville 38), the nextthe two Frank while months income. their supplement to to St. Petersburg (Americans 33), (Americans Petersburg St. 33), to north then across Atlanta, through tion of they McClellan visit Evans, travel across southern Texas on southern across travel Texas stay and (Americans 29) Gallup to photographs in and around the the around and photographs in Developsin trip the from film photographer Burden’s Shirley in counterintelligence. He is released He is counterintelligence. in Hoover Las drive into and Dam Los Angeles on or before just Beach (Americans 25, 44), west northern Georgia Chattanoogato northern and of tips Alabama in Newburgh,in photographing in Elizabethtown, Elizabethtown, in photographing Baton Rouge (Americans 47) and and (AmericansBaton 47) Rouge refinery. oil photographs Esso at an Houston (Americans 62), where Houston (Americans 62), Del NewU.S. toward Rio 90 through Fe (Americans 42), where they In NewIn by November Orleans 11 Mississippi to Memphis (Ameri- Memphis to Mississippi Mississippi River through Arkansas. Arkansas. River through Mississippi U.S. along driving On November 7, McGehee,and jailed, fingerprinted, They him. join Mary children the and northMexico then (Americans 83), Christmas Day, they rent a house Day, Christmas at Pacific 6849 View Drive, Holly- around midnight. Drives midnight. southaround to secure commercial assignments assignments secure commercial state police a local and experienced stay a few days. They head south to several days. They northern cross 61, 76). He tries but 76). mostly61, to fails 65, arrested he is town the of in SC (Americans 71), and across the the across (Americans and 71), (Americans 45) and Georgetown, and (Americans 45) (Americans drive to then 4, 56), (Americans 18, 19), he then drives he then to (Americans 18, 19), (Americans 24). Arriving Vegas in (Americans 13), Beaufort(Americans 13), (Ameri- Savannah (Americans 6). Savannah Albuquerque and west and Albuquerque on U.S. 66 the to (Americans 35) Arizona , , - NJ Fortune , Purchases a Purchases Assists with Evans 25: Travels with Evans as as with Evans Travels – May 1956. With a letter 1956. May Leica begins using Leica using begins mid-July: – Photographs scenes at the – . Awarded a Guggenheim Awarded a Guggenheim February 10 Late June December 1954 or January 1955: November: May or July: March 27: of introduction attesting his to overnight. cans 8). Published in Fortune in Published 8). cans during several on “The trips during Con- fellowship of $3,600fellowship for period the photographing begins fellowship, for two possessing plates license centennial parade in Hoboken, parade in centennial waiting for permission to photo to for permission waiting 1955 jukeboxes (Americans 10, 12, 27, (Americans 27, 10, 12, jukeboxes the essay “Beautiesthe of Common the through 1956. through through Allentown, Harrisburg, Allentown, Harrisburg, through the latterthe works on “These Dark in and around New York, including including New York, around and in gressional” train to and from and to train gressional” Frank photographs commuters Frank November 1955. photographs by Frank to advertise to photographs by Frank Leica photography cameras in These continue magazines. ads previous owner). He is jailed jailed Heprevious is owner). in Dearborn (Americans 50, 63), Dearbornin 63), (Americans 50, Detroithe photographs around Pittsburgh, (Americans Cleveland graph in the Ford River Rouge Plant Plant Ford the River in Rouge graph 1955 May Grosse Pointe, and Ann Arbor Ann and Grosse Pointe, Commissioned by Evans and and by Evans Commissioned a systematic effort record to April 15: Fortune Washington and New York (Ameri- New and York Washington (Americans 1, 2). (Americans 1, 2). (Americans 80). In the first the In week(Americans 80). of one one from and current the (his (Americans 5, 69, 46, 37, 73, 77, 78), July police stop Frank and arrest him arrest policeJuly and stop him Frank Schultz drives and from New York Satanic Mills,” published in Fortune in published Mills,” Satanic April 1956. 1950 Ford Business Coupe from Ben Ford Business 1950 74), and Sandusky to Detroit. Sandusky to and 74), While Tool,” published in the July issue of issue July the in published Tool,” 43, 53). May: Frank sends group of twelve July 4, 5: Frank photographs people Late fall: The Americans is published 1962 photographs to MoMA that later at Coney Island. by Grove Press (released in January Throughout early 1960s publishes appear in The Americans. The 1960). With Trolley — New Orleans Summer: Begins filmmaking while photographs in Glamour, Mademoi- museum purchases them in 1959. on the front cover and a design by vacationing in Provincetown, selle, and Show, as well as Harper’s Alfred Leslie on the back, it includes By early June: Refines number and creating an 8mm short film with Bazaar for the first time since 1952. Kerouac’s introduction, and each sequence of photographs in his Mary and several friends, includ- His independent work continues to photograph faces a blank page. book, which now includes eighty- ing Miles Forst, Allan Kaprow, appear in Afterimage, Aftonbladet, It is fairly widely reviewed for a five images. and Richard Bellamy. Aperture, Artsmagazine, Art Voices, photography book. Most reviews Camera, Choice, Creative Camera, June 20 – July 26: In Europe, spends Frank photographs scenes from are negative. The book so offends Current, Du, Evergreen Review, Foto, week in Paris to discuss publication windows of buses in New York City. editors at Popular Photography Infinity, Läste Ni, Leica Photography, with Delpire and quickly finalizes Declares this his “last personal that they publish seven reviews Modern Photography, Monthly News selection and sequence of eighty- project in still photography,” begin- of it in their May issue, only one of and Current History, Photographer’s three photographs in book. Also ning a long pattern of vowing to which is unreservedly admiring. Forum, Photography Annual, Popular travels to Zurich, where he shows make no more still photographs. Photography, Saturday Review, Gotthard Schuh his maquette for Second Coming, U.S. Camera, and Late fall: Barney Rosset of Grove The Americans. 1960 Press agrees to publish Les Améri- U.S. Camera and Travel. Frank films The Sin of Jesus at George August: Schuh writes an article on cains in the United States, using Segal’s chicken farm in New Jersey, Moves to 184 Sixth Avenue, near his reaction to Frank’s Americans reproductions printed by Draeger from a script based on a short story the corner of Spring Street, in maquette in Camera. It includes Frères; subsequently agrees to by Isaac Babel, with financing from Manhattan. seventeen photographs by Frank, Frank’s wishes that all reproduc- Frank and Gutman. The film features several of which were later removed tions face blank pages and that Julie Bovasso, John Coe, Roberts from consideration for the book, as Kerouac’s introduction be used. 1963 Blossom, and Telly Savalas, with well as a portrait of Frank by Schuh. November: Delpire releases Les appearances by Frank and Jonas Directs OK End Here, a thirty-minute Early September: Frank meets Jack Américains with eighty-three Mekas. With a running time of forty film based on a story by Marion Kerouac in New York, shows him photographs by Frank, printed as minutes, it premieres in New York Magid, featuring Martino La Salle the maquette, and asks him to sheet-fed gravures by Draeger on December 10, 1961. and Sue Ungaro. It has its initial write an introduction for the book. Frères, and texts by various authors, screening at the Bergamo Film Fes- January 15: The Americans is officially generally critical of the U.S., tival in Italy in September and its Early October: Kerouac finishes first released by Grove Press. chosen by editor Alain Bosquet. New York premiere September 14. draft of his introduction; Frank Texts are on verso pages, facing September 28: Frank and twenty- subsequently asks him to make it April 26: Travels to Yugoslavia, the photographs on the right. The two other independent filmmakers longer, and Kerouac, with great Romania, and Hungary for Harper’s book is number five in Delpire’s (including Mekas, Shirley Clarke, reluctance, drafts two additional Bazaar. Encyclopédie essentielle collection. Lionel Rogosin, Peter Bogdanovich, versions. and Emile de Antonio) meet at June: New York Times advertising December: U.S. Camera Annual 1958 Producer’s Theater in New York and department, with Louis Silverstein publishes thirty-eight photographs 1959 form the New American Cinema in charge, publishes Zero Mostel from Frank's Guggenheim project, Gli Americani, edited by Raffaele Group. Reads a Book, with photographs including fifteen not in The Ameri- Crovi and Alain Bosquet, is published by Frank, to give away at the cans, plus text by Evans and Frank. in Italy by Il Saggiatore, with plates American Booksellers Association printed by Draeger Frères. Texts 1961 convention in Washington, DC. from Les Américains, plus additional January: Mademoiselle publishes October 18: Frank becomes a U.S. 1958 texts by Italian writers selected the first in a series of interviews citizen, taking the oath with Mary January: Frank begins working with by Crovi, appear on the verso pages. with controversial figures titled and Cohen as witnesses in the Louis Silverstein at the New York “Disturbers of the Peace.” Frank January – April: Frank and Leslie work U.S. District Court of New York. Times on a series of ads called “New makes the portraits that accompany on film Pull My Daisy, with funding York Is…,” which will be published in the series, published at intervals by Jack Dreyfus and Walter Gutman. Advertising Age until 1963 as well as until 1964. 1964 The film, twenty-eight minutes in the New York Times. Subsequently long, is inspired by Kerouac’s play July 17: The complete narration of Moves to 203 West Eighty-sixth published in book form as New The Beat Generation, narrated by Pull My Daisy is published in book Street in Manhattan, near the corner York Is . . . , with an essay by Gilbert Kerouac, and it includes Ginsberg, form by Grove Press, New York, of Broadway. Millstein, in 1959. Corso, Peter Orlovsky, Delphine with forty-nine enlargements from 368 Begins working with Ginsberg Seyrig, Larry Rivers, Bellamy, David the film, eight photographs by April: Travels to Florida with Kerouac, on a screenplay adaptation of the Amram, and Alice Neel, with John Cohen of the making of the making photographs for a collab- latter’s 1958 poem Kaddish. orative article. Life rejects the story. appearances by Pablo and Mary film, and text by Kerouac. The same month Dobell includes Frank. Released November 11. January and intermittently through Late August: Frank travels to Italy twenty-one of Frank’s photographs April 1966: As cinematographer for Fall: Frank photographs on the set to photograph the Venice Film from the Guggenheim period in Conrad Rooks on Chappaqua, travels of the Elia Kazan film Wild River. Festival. Pageant magazine. in France, the U.S., Mexico, England, November 10: Travels to Nairobi India, Ceylon, and Jamaica. Shoots May 15: Draeger Frères prints Les for Glamour. more than three hundred hours Américains. of improvised footage. The film premieres at the Sutton Cinema in New York on November 5, 1967. Map and Chronology 369 , a film by , a film Reno, NevadaReno, , produced by . Mick Jagger, Keith Keith Jagger, . Mick — , a ninety-two-minute Daughter, Andrea, Daughter, RI Negative pack films. / During the Rolling Stones Stones Rolling the During Sunseed While sailing to South to sailing While December 28: May: May: July 18: of the touring partyof touring the also are of Chuck Berry,of Little Chuck Richard, on October 12. for a quick arraignment to avoid avoid to arraignment for a quick civic unrest at a concert scheduled for No Second Chance camera, inexpensive plastic an camera loaded with color film. disappear from boat the disappear and dies in airplane crash near Tikal, Tikal, near crash airplane in dies documentary and on yogis, gurus, with assault for allegedly striking a a striking for allegedly with assault later rent a small room at 7 Bleecker rent a small later 1974 1975 1973 trip, Citytrip, Hall tour, Frank is arrested is charged and Frank tour, in the Boston the in Garden. Richards, and two and other membersRichards, Frank hired as cinematographer cinematographer as hired Frank Len Glasser. Land a Polaroid use to Begins Positive and Frank route California, to En Leaf get and stop married Reno in courthouse same the in where photographed had a newlyFrank Guggenheim couple onmarried his Frank works LetFrank on film the the using collages make to Begins color prints frommachine Lure the police officer movie his with camera Warwick,in by Frank and Baird Bryant. Baird and by Frank Leaves apartment the at 184 Bowery, Maboumoving to with They Leaf. Guatemala. arrested. of The Boston mayor asks Columbia Pictures, Columbia about music the are presumed dead. are swamis, is released. is Camera swamis, work is Good Times Roll (Americans 81). America, Seymour a friend and 196 camera, often 665 with Type Street New for when use in York. The Shirelles, and others. and The Released Shirelles, , . , which includes Frank’s Frank’s includes , which , made by and with by, made and Evans visits Frank and and visits Frank Evans Frank buys a house in Frank as “Walker Evans on Robert Evans “Walker 3 as Moves 184 to Bowery in Frank completes Frank film the Robert Frank on Walker Robert on Walker Frank The Rolling Stones and and Stones The Rolling / / Frank speaks to a class taught taught speaks a class to Frank The Rolling Stones’ album album Stones’ The Rolling May: Spring: Summer: Summer: June 3: densed version. with photographs by Frank. with Frank. Winter: 1972 1971 to lectureto over colleges, in traveling Los Chicago, yearsthe to Angeles, of My Hand this building and begins working working begins and building this Evans.” Begins accepting invitations Begins Evans.” Newfoundland, and Francisco, in June 1975. June in is shown to the band in London in band the shown to in is by Walker Evans at Yale University. at Yale Evans by Walker Still in Frank Leaf Mabou for in one week and home.photographs their Nova Scotia, with artist Leaf. June raphy since the early 1960s, early the since is raphy with slipcover, Tokyo, in published Motomura. Kazuhiko by Yugensha, Lustrum Press, published New York, Gibson, releases a con-by Ralph North American tour in Vancouver, North Vancouver, American in tour performing thirty-eight concerts thirty-onein cities, and with Frank resulting The expense. and invitation Bluesninety-minute Cocksucker film, Montreal, Oakland, Portland, San Oakland, Montreal, Mabou on Cape Breton Island, Manhattan with Leaf. Danny Manhattan with Danny Leaf. among other places.among Clothbound edition of The Lines atin Pacific the Berkeley Forum Film April: students at the Visual Studies students Studies at Visual the Home Is Where the Heart the Home Where Is Is is released,Exile on is Main Street Works with Seymour on film the Workshop in Rochester. in Workshop firstartistic efforts photog-in still Seymour, a filmmaker, also livesin also a filmmaker, Seymour, Stevie Wonder begin a two-month Wonder Stevie first 1973 and June screened publicly An edited transcript is published An edited published is transcript Seymour filming at the band’s the at band’s Seymour filming About Us . - - . . . MoMA edition, but , with a text by , with a grant 1971. Writes “Letter Writes from – Assisted by Danny Lyon, Lyon, Assisted by Danny . 18: at “The Hunger Show,” a at “The Show,” Hunger MoMA – / Nine photographs by Frank photographs byNine Frank Twelve photographs from Twelve A Musical December: – — January: January: June October11 of the photographs is similar of similar photographs the is earlier printing. Reviews are printing. earlier from Institute. American the Film editor Bill Jay, a portion Jay, editor of Bill Kerouac’s week-long fast organized by fast Stewartweek-long organized 1970 1969 lighter than the gravure reproduc gravure the than lighter the duotonethe reproductions tions are printed using “Stonetone,” “Stonetone,” printed using are tions tions in the first editions, and many first the in many tions and editions, Frank visits his children at their at their children visits his Frank to school Vermont boarding in aboutupbring- their a film make ing, Vermont in Conversations Robert Mary separate. and Frank ing of second the ing edition of Frank complains about “lousy” the complains Frank job. binding and printing introduction, texts and by Frank Receives Institute American an Film forgrant 1970 published in Kerouac article, Kerouac the “On in published Review Evergreen in Florida,” to Road Kerouac’s textKerouac’s describes to traveling April 1958. in withFlorida Frank makes a documentarymakes Life- film Portola the Brand and Institute. New York” Camera for Creative have far more contrast than any far more any contrasthave than positive.nearly universally About workBegins on film the but not identical 1968 the to ment of Photography at Rapoport most Corp.; Printing are page. Back coverpage. by graphics Leslie Grossman Publishers. Cropping Cropping Publishers. Grossman and Evans from U.S. Evans and Camera a process similar to duotone, to by the a process similar are notare properly on the aligned replaced by a briefare text by John softcover cooperation in with Creative Camera Creative Raft-Earth Me Aperture releases print- another Aperture Szarkowski, directorSzarkowski, ofDepart the Annual 1958 Annual The film is completed Thein 1971. film in hardcover and and hardcover in The Americans are reproduced are in The Americans - - - , to be, to , publishes , publishes Butte, Montana , travels widely, travels , a handmade , a handmade — MoMA , takes three years three , takes . Working with the . Working Gives an interviewGives an at 18: – , with about twenty-seven on February 2, 1969, at New the from frustrated Frank’s ambitions for Luncheonette in a section firstfilms from his four 1965 1968 1967 1966 throughout the U.S. and to Japan Japan to U.S. the and throughout to film Kaddish film to complete.to The cast includes tions of stills, frame enlargements, of frametions stills, enlargements, the George Eastman House, Georgethe which Eastman until 1980. until titled “Continuation.” Reproduc- titled “Continuation.” book, produced is a production as name. for the arranges Lyons Nathan picture for film twenty-five photo- from The Americans graphs used in a traveling exhibition. The used a traveling in phrenic brother of Beatphrenic poet Peter includes discussion of The Americans. discussion includes black-and-white and color and reproduc black-and-white Frank produces a promotional Frank book, by Conrad Chappaqua: A Film Me and My Brother, filming Begins photographer and printer Sid Kaplan, Kaplan, Sid photographerprinter and of alters many cropping the Frank uses a differentimages, negative George Eastman House to exchange HouseGeorge exchange to Eastman Ginsberg, Peter and Julius Orlovsky, Peter Julius Ginsberg, and Orlovsky. evolveswhich The film, Christopher Walken. The film opens The film Walken. Christopher aid for Frank’s film the by same film for Frank’s aid ances by Roscoe Lee Brown and and Joseph Chaikin, with appear Josephand Chaikin, and portraitsand of some of cast the crew. and about Julius Orlovsky, schizo the about Julius a second, expanded edition of and multiple-frame enlargements multiple-frame enlargements and show, Robertshow, Frank August 17 Rooks Me and My Brother (Americans 41), and adds synopses adds and (Americans 41), Yorker Theater to mixed reviews. Theater mixed to Yorker Aperture, with 35mm black-and-white motion black-and-white 35mm The Americans Summer: With a grant from the 1982 1986 March: Parkett / Der Alltag publishes Canada Council for Film and Video, July 23 – August 1: Attends twenty- The Americans is issued in softcover The Lines of My Hand, a revised makes the thirty-eight-minute fifth-anniversary celebration of and hardcover by Pantheon. The edition. Frank includes many Pola- film Keep Busy on an isolated island Kerouac’s On the Road at the book is also released in Germany roids and serial images made since off the coast of Nova Scotia. Leaf, Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO. by Christian Verlag. publication of the original book Richard Serra, Joan Jonas, and actors His film of the proceedings, titled in 1972. Pantheon and Secker March: On the occasion of a retro- from the Mabou Mines Troupe This Song for Jack, features Gins- & Warburg, Ltd. subsequently spective exhibition at the Museum perform a script written by Rudy berg, Amram, Gary Snyder, William publish it in the U.S. and England. of Fine Arts, Houston, the documen- Wurlitzer. Released later that year. Burroughs, Carolyn Cassady, and tary film Fire in the East: A Portrait September – October: Hunter is filmed Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Released of Robert Frank is released, directed on location in the industrial Ruhr in 1983. 1978 by Philip and Amy Brookman and region of West Germany, with a script by Stephan Balint. Premieres December: Aperture publishes a including interviews with Ginsberg, in New York on December 2. revised edition of The Americans in 1983 Mekas, Wurlitzer, de Antonio, and others. hardback, including a variant of March 24: William S. Johnson and one image used in earlier editions, Susan E. Cohen visit Frank in New November: Frank begins filming 1990 Assembly line — Detroit (Americans York and begin a series of interviews Candy Mountain, codirected with April: The Robert Frank Collection is 50). Frank deleted the “Continuation” that becomes part of an artist’s Wurlitzer, about a master guitar established at the National Gallery section that had appeared in the collaborative project including Dave maker who burned his creations of Art, Washington, with a large 1968 / 1969 edition and added a strip Heath, Robert Heinecken, and John rather than allow investors to buy gift from Frank, including all of his of three frames after the last image Wood and continues through 1985. them. Shooting takes place in the negatives, contact sheets, and in the sequence (Americans 83). winter of 1986 in New York and November – March 1984: Using a video work prints made in preparation These three frames are the next Nova Scotia. The film is released camera, makes Home Improvements, for The Americans as well as many three negatives on the same roll as in France in January 1988, and in an autobiographical film about other photographs. Americans 83 and show Mary, Pablo, the U.S. in July 1988. and Andrea in their car. Many of himself, Leaf, and his son, Pablo, July 26: Frank makes a one-hour the prints from which the reproduc- first shown in 1985. videotape with no edits called tions in this edition were made are 1987 C’est Vrai! Commissioned by French significantly different in cropping Receives the Friends of Photog- television, the video is written and and tonality from the first edition 1984 raphy Peer Award for a Distin- planned by Frank and photographer and constitute a deliberate reinter- April 24 – 26: Photographs the guished Career in Photography. Michal Rovner. Actors include Kevin pretation by Frank. The book is a J. Geils Band in Allston, MA; some J. O’Connor, Taylor Mead, Peter larger size, with a redesigned dust images are included in their November: Yugensha, Kazuhiko Orlovsky, and Sid Kaplan. For release jacket, and is also published in album You’re Gettin’ Even While Motomura publishes Frank’s book in the U.S., Frank changes the title England for the first time by the I’m Gettin’ Odd: J. Geils Band. Flower Is . . . in a limited edition to One Hour. Gordon Fraser Gallery, Ltd. of five hundred. July 16 – 19: Photographs at the December: Frank commissioned Democratic National Convention 1991 1980 in San Francisco. by the Birmingham News and Birmingham Museum of Art to June: Travels to Florence, Italy, to Completes the thirty-minute film photograph the city. produce a short film for designer Life Dances On . . ., dedicated to his Romeo Gigli. 1985 daughter, Andrea, and to Seymour; September – October: Films The Last it features artist Martin Greenbaum, Delpire publishes Les Américains 1988 a mentally ill Bowery bum named with Kerouac’s introduction Supper, produced by Ruth Wald- April 29 – June 2: The Washington Billy, and Frank’s son, Pablo. translated into French by Michel burger for Vega Films and by Martin Deguy, printed by Jean Genoud. Project for the Arts, in collaboration Rosenbaum for BBC. Shoots on April: While at Nantasket Beach, MA, Variant images of Metropolitan with the American Film Institute location in his loft and in Harlem leading a workshop for students in Life Insurance Building — New York and Filmfest DC, presents In the and completes editing in 1992. MIT’s photography program, makes City and Assembly line — Detroit Margins of Fiction: The Films of a book titled That’s Life, a small Robert Frank at the Kennedy Cen- November: Photographs in Beirut are used (Americans 27, 50), and for a project organized by the green spiral steno pad into which the original negative is used for ter in Washington, DC, curated by he taped Polaroids. Philip Brookman. This is the first Lebanese-French writer Dominique Luncheonette — Butte, Montana Eddé. (Americans 41). time all of Frank’s films are shown. 370 1981 Frank’s photograph of Tom Waits 1989 1993 Winter: Travels to Utah / Nevada to is printed on the back cover of the film Energy and How to Get It with album Tom Waits: Rain Dogs. Frank photographs in New York for Amerikanzu: Robato Furanku shash- Gary Hill and Rudy Wurlitzer. fashion designer Alberto Aspesi’s inshu, a Japanese edition of The June: Awarded the Erich Salomon Americans, is released by Takara- Funded by the Corporation for Public Prize by the Deutsche Gesellschaft shirt catalogue. Broadcasting as part of its Indepen- jimasha; Cornerhouse Publications für Photographie in Berlin. Shoots the music video Run for the dent Anthropology Film Series, it is of Manchester issues a softbound band New Order. based on the life of Robert Golka, an edition, and Scalo issues reprints in engineer experimenting with ball English and German, in association lightning. with the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Map and Chronology 371 - - 1969 / , Frank’s , Frank’s , a film about , a film 1959 Delpire and and Delpire 1959 / The MacDowell Colony in premiered. Receives a Persistence of premieres at the Tate at Tate Story the premieres True May: of Photography Capa Infinity Cornell on his early morning paper route morning early on his of Frank’s. The film is completedof Frank’s. The film with MacDowell Edward Medal. the 2002 2004 2000 2008 excerpts from his earlier films as films excerpts earlier from his written by Pablo. 1999 well as some of his earlier photo some earlier as ofwell his the reeditedthe version of Me and My the Chinese artist Chinese the who a friend was includes additional photographs additional includes of sequence. the image in 1999.in Receives the International Center Center Receives International the Fiftieth-anniversary edition of he accompanies Roberthe accompanies MacMillan Peterborough, NH, presents Frank University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Begins filming Sanyu filming Begins International Film Festival, Film where International In conjunctionIn with exhibition the graphical look at his home, family, look home,graphical family, at his Leaf’sgraphs, art, letters and Grove Press editions and for editions the Grove Press and in which which Paper in Route film the Makes Granted an honoraryGranted an from PhD the Modern, London. autobio It an is after Americans 83, final the around Mabou. around and the National Gallery of National the Art,and and friends and includes brief includes friends and and August 18: 1958 the as size Brother Robert Storylines Frank: Washington. It is the same trim It trim same the is Washington. Vision Award from the San Francisco from Francisco San the Award Vision first time since the 1968 since first time film Award. Aperture editions, it no longer is issued by Steidl by Steidl issued is The Americans - - - , at the . , a rumination , a rumination PA national national , to be, to shown at , with participa the Son, a in dies Pablo, , in which he a reenact narrates which , in November 12: of paintings by the Chinese painter painter by Chinese the of paintings on Frank’s homes in New York and and homeson Frank’s New in York for Patti Smith. foundation for his house in Mabou. house in for his foundation working in photography, video, photography, film, in working 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 tion of Ginsberg, Leaf, Raoul Hague, Hague, Raoul tion of Leaf, Ginsberg, artiststo arts and organizations hospital Allentown, in Photographs in Zurich for Aspesi. Zurich Photographs in Participates restoration in sales and Nova Scotia, his relationships, family, family, Nova relationships, Scotia, his video Cannibals Summer music Films National Film Registry Film byNational Librar- the of Congress. ian The Present films Frank Receives the Erna and Victor and Receives Erna the Hassel- Foundation Inter blad Harry others, and Smith, for the retrospective work, exhibition of his Gallery ofNational Art. establishes Andrea Frank the Frank providesFoundation, which grants Frank films the sixteen-minutethe films video Frank ment of his imagined visit to the the to visit imagined ment of his home of Alfred Stieglitz. Leaf plays Stieglitz. plays Frank and Frank, plays records construction the of a new Photographs Aspesi collection jacket Mabou.in I Remem five-minute the film Makes Georgia O’Keeffe, Jerome Sother ber and later creates with her the the her withcreates later and and work.and award ceremony in 1997, which which 1997, in ceremony award and other media. and short Flamingo film, Pull My DaisyPull added U.S. the to Robert Moving Out Frank: Moving Pictures Sanyu. Meets New in Rita York Wong Sanyu Foundation’s Andrea Frank University. at Yale Fund Scholarship Award in Photography. Creates a Photography. in Award