Film Looks At Life Of Artist Robert Frank

Photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank
Photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank, left, considers a question from the audience at the opening of an exhibition featuring Frank's work, "Robert Frank: Books and Films, 1947–2016," at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in January 2016 in New York. Kathy Willens / Associated Press
Photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank
Photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank, left, considers a question from the audience at the opening of an exhibition featuring Frank's work, "Robert Frank: Books and Films, 1947–2016," at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in January 2016 in New York. Kathy Willens / Associated Press

Film Looks At Life Of Artist Robert Frank

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Filmmaker and photographer Robert Frank is probably best known for his book The Americans. His life and art are the subject of the new documentary Don’t Blink-Robert Frank.

Film contributor Milos Stehlik and the film’s cinematographer Ed Lachman join us to discuss the documentary and Frank’s career. Lachman’s body of work includes Carol, Erin Brockovich and Mildred Pierce.