Robert Frank was born in Zurich in 1924 to parents of Jewish descent. He immigrated to the United States two years after World War II ended, and since then he has produced work that changed the history of art and photography. Groundbreaking projects include The Americans, Lines of My Hand, Black White and Things, Pull My Daisy and Cocksucker Blues. Frank was the subject of a major retrospective organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in 1994. He was the recipient of the Hasselblad Award in 1996. A major exhibition organized by The National Gallery of Art, Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans," will tour nationally in 2009, with stops in Washington, San Francisco and New York.
Anne Wilkes Tucker is Curator of Photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the author of Louis Faurer and The History of Japanese Photography.
"Jeff L. Rosenheim is Assistant Curator in the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is the author of Walker Evans and Jane Ninas in New Orleans, 1935-1936, editor and coauthor of Unclassified: A Walker Evans Anthology, and co-author of Walker Evans, 1928-1974."
