Art on Film | Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank

Gerald Fox's documentary portrait of Robert Frank screens in the Sarasota High School Alumni Auditorium at Sarasota Art Museum, part of an Art on Film series that builds audience discussion into every screening. Fox shot Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank in cinema-verite style between New York and Nova Scotia. The Swiss-born photographer, whose 1958 book The Americans proved enormously influential, revisits the Lower East Side and Coney Island, recalls Pull My Daisy and his infamous Rolling Stones tour film, and speaks with his wife, the artist June Leaf, about personal tragedy. The film reached American theaters only in 2019, after Frank approved a release.