Photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank recalls his experience as a young artist, picking up and moving from a small town and Switzerland to New York City. He describes his early struggles, his determination, and how Beat Generation writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac showed him a different way of life.
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