Robert Frank

New York Fashion Week: Trends in menswear

2012-02-19 00:00:00

The fall-winter 2012 menswear collections that showed during the recently wrapped New York Fashion Week brought the usual riffs on masculine archetypes. Rag & Bone and Tommy Hilfiger served up military men. Michael Kors went for plaid-clad lumberjack...

Lillian Bassman dies at 94; renowned fashion photographer

2012-02-15 00:00:00

"I didn't bring you to Paris to make art; I brought you here to do the buttons and bows," Harper's Bazaar editor Carmel Snow famously snapped at photographer Lillian Bassman during a fashion shoot for the magazine in the late 1940s. But Bassman's fashion...

Gusmano Cesaretti's 'East L.A. Diary'

2012-01-21 16:33:17

Book review: 'Untold Story' by Monica Ali

2011-07-17 00:00:00

Untold Story A Novel Monica Ali Scribner: 259 pp., $25 Fairy tales are the Euclidian geometry of fiction. Reading them — and having them read to us — are the moments when we first divide reality. We teach our imagination to leap, hit the...

Art review: 'Streetwise: Masters of '60s Photography' at the Museum of Photographic Arts

2011-03-16 16:32:48

The Concord Music Group difference, according to Tift Merritt

2010-04-30 16:35:02

The resurgence of Rudolph Wurlitzer

2009-11-15 00:00:00

Reading Rudolph Wurlitzer's novels is like watching a road movie backward. In his 1969 underground classic, "Nog," the narrator drifts across an amorphous terrain on which his shifting identity molds itself like soft clay. Rather than buttressing his...

Art review: Alice Neel at L.A. Louver

2010-05-28 21:32:52

Richie Rich 101

2007-07-29 00:00:00

++++++++++++++++++++ || || ++++++++++++++++++++ Last year, I went to an unusual summer camp. It was a three-day affair, held in a small classroom at UC Irvine, with about 20 attendees. They began arriving early in a stream of Range Rovers, BMWs and...

Robert Frank goes from ignored to a national treasure

2009-03-15 00:00:00

Looking In Robert Frank's "The Americans" -- Expanded Edition Edited and with text by Sarah Greenough Steidl: 506 pp., $75 hardcover He was a foreigner with a camera, a young artist newly arrived on the streets of Manhattan from the Old World,...

The making of Robert Frank's 'The Americans'

2009-06-11 15:14:13

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Rapper's family's suit goes to trial

2005-06-22 00:00:00

A corrupt Los Angeles police officer orchestrated the 1997 slaying of Notorious B.I.G. as part of a bitter feud between rival record labels, a lawyer for the late rapper's family told jurors Tuesday during opening statements in a wrongful-death suit...

Ruth Schaefer gets this week's honorable mention for her photo titled "Close Neighbors." At her daughter's suggestion, Ruth googled "new housing developments" and found "Suburbia.

2012-05-06 07:29:00

Coast Guard Lt. John Larkin, 27, of Long Valley, NJ, gets an anthrax shot from Petty Officer 2nd Class Robert Frank at the Health Services Division at ISC Portsmouth.

2005-11-20 06:20:30

Robert Frank of Parkton clears the snow off his driveway early this morning after approximately 6 inches of snow fell overnight.

2004-01-26 00:00:00