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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Wendy Ide

Don’t Blink – Robert Frank review – portrait of a great American

The ‘uncompromising’ Robert Frank
The ‘uncompromising’ Robert Frank.

With its punchy soundtrack, snappy editing and confrontational attitude, this documentary about the seminal photographer Robert Frank brilliantly captures the essence of the man. Influenced by the Beat writers and by fellow photographers Walker Evans and Louis Faurer, Frank is best known for his seminal book The Americans. But he also forged a parallel career as an experimental film-maker. This bracing documentary portrait finds the artist, now in his 90s, as refreshingly prickly and uncompromising as ever.

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