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Robert Frank, Influential
Photographer, Dies at 94
MARCY OSTER JTA
R
obert Frank, a docu-
mentary photographer
best known for his
book The Americans, died
Monday, Sept. 9, 2019, in
Inverness, Nova Scotia, where
he had a summer
home. He was 94.
He grew up in
Switzerland during
World War II, the
son of a Swiss moth-
er and a father who
was a Jewish refugee
from Germany, and
remained safe there.
The threat of Nazism,
however, affected
his understanding of
oppression, according to the
New York Times.
Frank immigrated to New
York at the age of 23 in 1947.
He landed a job as a fashion
photographer for Harper’
s
Bazaar and later worked for
Fortune, Life, Look, McCall’
s,
Vogue and Ladies Home
Journal. His work has been
exhibited around the world.
His groundbreaking pho-
tos for The Americans, some
purposely out of focus and
grainy and in poor lighting,
were taken during road trips
across the United States in
the mid-1950s, funded by a
Guggenheim Fellowship. The
book was published in 1959.
Some 83 of the black-and-
white photos were used in the
book, selected from
the 28,000 that he
had taken.
Frank later
became a filmmak-
er, with his 1972
documentary of
the Rolling Stones,
Cocksucker Blues, the
most well-known.
The Stones sued to
prevent the film’
s
release, with a court
ultimately restricting the film
to being shown no more than
five times per year and only in
the presence of Frank.
He was a lifelong friend of
Beat poet Allen Ginsburg and
writer Jack Kerouac.
His daughter Andrea was
killed in a plane crash in 1974
and his son, Pablo, diagnosed
with schizophrenia, died in
a hospital in 1994. In 1995,
he founded the Andrea Frank
Foundation, which provides
grants to artists.
Frank
PAULA (JANOWITZ)
ALLAN, 76, former
Detroiter, died at her
residence in Palm Springs,
Calif., on Aug. 19, 2019.
She is survived by her
devoted husband, Gerald
Errico; daughter, Beth (Rabbi
Andrew) Allan-Bentley; son,
Eric (Kathleen Widomski)
Allan; sister, Rochelle (the late
Stuart) Davis; grandchildren,
Alexander Bentley, Jake
Bentley, Kayla Bentley and
Nate Bentley.
Mrs. Allan was the daughter
of the late Leah and the late
Bernard Janowitz; sister of the
late Maurice Janowitz, and
the late Robert Janowitz.
GLADYS
BERNSTEIN, 96,
passed away Sept.
4, 2019, at
Beaumont
Hospital in
Farmington Hills, after a brief
illness.
She was born in New
York City, the daughter of
Joseph and Lena (Oseasohn)
Zwick, and was the elder of
two children. In 1941, at a
dance hosted by her temple,
her rabbi introduced her to
Allen Bernstein, a soldier
home on leave. They began
corresponding and were
married in 1943. During
this period, she also attended
Hunter College.
In 1946, Gladys and
Allen moved to Detroit and
then to Southfield in 1966.
They became members of
Temple Beth El, where she
served as both a teacher and
administrator in the Sunday
school. She completed her
bachelor’
s and master’
s
degrees in education, as well
as additional study at Wayne
State University.
In 1962, she began
teaching speech and English
at Southfield High School,
where she worked for 22
years. While there, she
produced numerous student
plays and musicals and
coached members of the
school’
s award-winning
forensics teams. After
retirement, Gladys served as
chair of the Brandeis Book
Sale for several years. In
2002, she moved to the Park
at Trowbridge, where she was
chair of the residents’
council
and managed the building’
s
library. She loved theater,
travel and, most of all, her
family.
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