Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Robert Frank across 4 places, from 1936 to 1971.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Robert Frank (November 9, 1924 – September 9, 2019) was a Swiss American photographer and documentary filmmaker.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Robert Frank is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Robert Frank was documented, and when
1936 to 1955period
United Statesattested“Inspired by fellow Swiss Jakob Tuggener's 1943 filmic book Fabrik, Bill Brandt's The English at Home (1936), and Walker Evans's American Photographs (1938), and on the recommendation of Evans (a previous recipient), Alexey Brodovitch, Al…”source: Wikipedia: Robert Frank
1958year
Parisattested“Les Américains was first published in 1958 by Robert Delpire in Paris, as part of its Encyclopédie Essentielle series, with texts by Simone de Beauvoir, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, Henry Miller and John Steinbeck that Delpire pos…”source: Wikipedia: Robert Frank
1959year
United Statesattested“By the time The Americans was published in the United States in 1959, Frank had moved away from photography to concentrate on filmmaking.”source: Wikipedia: Robert Frank
1971year
Cape Breton Islandattested“He remarried, to sculptor June Leaf, and in 1971, moved to the community of Mabou in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia in Canada.”source: Wikipedia: Robert Frank
1971year
Canadaattested“He remarried, to sculptor June Leaf, and in 1971, moved to the community of Mabou in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia in Canada.”source: Wikipedia: Robert Frank
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In each of these, a source puts Robert Frank and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
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1947year
United Statesmentioned“Frank emigrated to the United States in 1947, and secured a job in New York City as a fashion photographer for Harper's Bazaar.”source: Wikipedia: Robert Frank
1947year
New York Citymentioned“Frank emigrated to the United States in 1947, and secured a job in New York City as a fashion photographer for Harper's Bazaar.”source: Wikipedia: Robert Frank
1947year
New Yorkmentioned“Frank emigrated to the United States in 1947, and secured a job in New York City as a fashion photographer for Harper's Bazaar.”source: Wikipedia: Robert Frank
1957year
New Yorkmentioned“Shortly after returning to New York in 1957, Frank met Beat writer Jack Kerouac "at a New York party where poets and Beatniks were," and showed him the photographs from his travels.”source: Wikipedia: Robert Frank
1961year
Art Institute of Chicagomentioned“] it remains perhaps the most influential photography book of the 20th century." In 1961, Frank received his first individual show, entitled Robert Frank: Photographer, at the Art Institute of Chicago.”source: Wikipedia: Robert Frank
1962year
New Yorkmentioned“He also showed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1962.”source: Wikipedia: Robert Frank
28 November 1968exact date
Village Voicementioned“Pull My Daisy was accordingly praised for years as an improvisational masterpiece, until Frank's co-director, Alfred Leslie, revealed in a November 28, 1968 article in the Village Voice that the film was actually carefully planned, rehea…”source: Wikipedia: Robert Frank
1974year
Tikalmentioned“In 1974, his daughter, Andrea, was killed in a plane crash in Tikal, Guatemala.”source: Wikipedia: Robert Frank
1984year
New Yorkmentioned“His work has been represented by Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York since 1984.”source: Wikipedia: Robert Frank
2009year
Metropolitan Museum of Artmentioned“A celebratory exhibit of The Americans, titled Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, was displayed in 2009 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and at the Metropolitan M…”source: Wikipedia: Robert Frank
2009year
New Yorkmentioned“A celebratory exhibit of The Americans, titled Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, was displayed in 2009 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and at the Metropolitan M…”source: Wikipedia: Robert Frank
Two people documented in the same place in the same year is a correlation, not a meeting.
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back to it. Nothing is inferred, and a gap in the record is not evidence that someone was elsewhere.
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explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
mentioned a sentence that ties the person to the place without stating presence.
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