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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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