Robert Frank/The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation, via Museum of Modern Art, NY It’s this late work — if such a rubric can be applied to the six decades of movie, video and photo ...

Image A scene from Frank’s “Life Dances On …” (1980), which juxtaposes family encounters with footage shot on the streets of New York City.Credit...The June Leaf and Robert Frank ...

“Robert Frank — Be Happy” is at the Museum Folkwang, in Essen, Germany, through Jan. 5. Another Frank show, “Hope Makes Visions,” is at New York’s Pace Gallery through Dec. 2 ...

That’s when “Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue” opens at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. In the meantime, there’s “Robert Frank and Todd Webb: Across America, 1955.″ ...

NEW YORK — In 1960, Robert Frank published a slim volume of 83 photographs called “The Americans,” which remains one of the most absorbing and disturbing photographic projects since the ...

Robert Frank, "New York City, 7 Bleecker Street" (1993), gelatin silver print, 15 15/16 x 19 13/16 inches (∼40.48 x 50.32 cm); Museum of Modern Art (all images courtesy Museum of Modern Art ...

Allen Ginsberg, Robert Frank, his Bleeker [sic] street home, New York (January 1984) displayed in "Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue" at the Museum of Modern Art. Photo by Ben Davis.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Robert Frank published The Americans, he knew the satisfaction of having delivered a masterpiece.

Various shows and publications have observed that event. The most extensive, “Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue,” at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, focused on Frank’s post ...