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Frank’s friend, the sculptor Raoul Hague, moved from downtown New York City to the Catskills town of Woodstock, New York, where he made large-scale wooden sculptures from trees native to the area. Although he participated in several important group exhibitions in New York City during the 1950s (including at MoMA), Hague deliberately distanced himself from the art market. This double portrait of Hague and Frank, under a row of mirrors that adorned Hague’s cabin, was photographed by Brian Graham, Frank’s assistant at the time. The separate window frames evoke a characteristic Graham appreciated about Frank: “Robert always found a way to take two pictures and put them together, there was always a solution. And so it helped me with my own photography to see this.”
Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue, Sep 15, 2024–Jan 11, 2025
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Robert Frank
American, born Switzerland.1924–2019 294 works onlineRobert 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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