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Informationen zum Autor Robert Frank, geboren 1924 in Zürich, ging 1947 in die Vereinigten Staaten. 1958 erschien sein Buch The Americans, ein bahnbrechendes Werk, das aus ganz neuer Perspektive auf die Amerikaner blickte und die Ästhetik des Fotobuchs revolutionierte. Weitere seiner Bücher sind Black White and Things und The Lines of My Hand. Zu seinen wichtigsten Filmen zählen Pull My Daisy und Cocksucker Blues. Franks Arbeiten werden weltweit ausgestellt. Robert Frank starb am 9. September 2019 im Alter von 94 Jahren. Pull My Daisy is a 1959 short film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of a stage play he never finished entitled Beat Generation. Kerouac also provided improvised narration. It starred Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Peter Orlovsky, David Amram, Richard Bellamy, Alice Neel, Sally Gross and Pablo, Frank's then-infant son. Based on an incident in the life of Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn, Daisy tells the story of a railway brakeman whose painter wife invites a respectable bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman's bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results. Pull My Daisy was praised for years as an improvisational masterpiece, until Leslie revealed in 1968 that the film was actually carefully planned, rehearsed, and directed by him and Frank. Zusammenfassung Pull my Daisy is a 1959 short film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank´s then-infant son.Based on an incident in the life of Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn, Daisy tells the story of a railway brakeman whose painter wife invites a respectable bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman´s bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results. The title Pull my Daisy was taken from the poem of the same name written by Kerouac, Ginsberg and Neal Cassidy over the 1940s and 1950s. The poem features in the film as thelyric within the jazz composition at the film´s opening.The Beat philosophy emphasized spontaneity, and the film conveyed the quality of having been thrown together or even improvised. Pull my Daisy was accordingly praised for years as an improvisational masterpiece, until Leslie revealed in a 1968 article in the Village Voice that the film was actually carefully planned, rehearsed, and directed by him and Frank, who shot the film on a professionally lit studio set.The book interweaves a transcript of Kerouac´s narration from the film with film stills and also includes an introduction by Jerry Tallmer written in 1961....
