Artist

Hollis Frampton

American, 1936–1984

Hollis Frampton was an American artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art.

Hollis William Frampton Jr. was an American avant-garde filmmaker, photographer, writer, theoretician, and pioneer of digital art. He was best known for his innovative and non-linear structural films that defined the movement, including Lemon (1969), Zorns Lemma (1970), and Hapax Legomena (1971–1972), as well as his anthology book, Circles of Confusion: Film, Photography, Video: Texts, 1968–1980 (1983).

Collections represented

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