The music video for the song “Run” by the British band New Order marks the first of Frank’s many projects with the film editor Laura Israel (seen nearby in the photograph Laura). The video combines passages of the band performing in Los Angeles with footage shot in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, of a young girl and the actor David Warrilow, with whom Frank had previously collaborated on the film Keep Busy. Israel later recalled what Frank stated of his process: “Once we make a choice, it’s fate. First thought, best thought. We don’t go back. We only move forward.”

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Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue, Sep 15, 2024–Jan 11, 2025

Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 17 11/16 × 13 13/16" (45 × 35.1 cm)
Credit Committee on Photography Fund
Object number 281.2003
Department Photography

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Robert Frank

Robert Frank

American, born Switzerland.1924–2019 294 works online

Robert Frank’s restless, gritty, melancholic vision marked him as an astute documentarian of the postwar American landscape. Born into a German-Jewish family in Zurich in 1924, he developed an interest in photography at an early age and apprenticed with several photographers in his teens.

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