Tal Uf Tal Ab take us behind the scenes

take us behind the scenes of Frank at work—on location for his 1987 film Candy Mountain

his temporary donkey ears all add up to the real sum of his parts

which are the most noticeable fauna on the island

Yet just as important (and for even longer) was the weather-beaten fisherman’s cottage he bought in 1969 with his wife

“Tal Uf Tal Ab is Swiss-German

Tal Uf Tal Ab take us behind the scenesTal Uf Tal Ab is Swiss German. It means direction up the valley down the valley. Now I live and wait and think mostly in the places I live New York City and Mabou N. S. Robert Franks life now, an inquisitive existence shaped by memory, and includes photographs of newsstands, streetscapes, friends, his wife June Leaf, interiors, as well as a self portrait. Among these images are scattered earlier ones from Franks past, for example a candid portrait of