Hollis Frampton
| Hollis Frampton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 11, 1936 Wooster, Ohio, United States |
| Died | March 30, 1984 (aged 48) Buffalo, New York, United States |
| Occupation | Artist & writer |
| Notable work | Zorns Lemma |
| Spouse(s) | Marion Faller |
Hollis Frampton (March 11, 1936 – March 30, 1984) was an American avant-garde filmmaker, photographer, writer/theoretician, and pioneer of digital art.
Hollis Frampton married Marion Faller, a photographer artist. Together they collaborated on several series including: Vegetable Locomotion and False Impressions.
Frampton was born March 11, 1936 in Wooster, Ohio. An only child, he was raised primarily by his maternal grandparents.
At the age of 15 he entered Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where he was accepted on full scholarship. At Andover, Frampton’s classmates and friends included the painter Frank Stella and sculptor Carl Andre. Widely read already as a youth, he had a reputation at Andover as a “young genius” but was also unpredictable: he failed to graduate from Andover, and thus forfeited a National Scholarship to Harvard University, when he failed his history course on a bet that he could pass the final exam without ever reading the textbook. Entering Western Reserve University in 1954, Frampton took a wide variety of classes (Latin, Greek, German, French, Russian, Sanskrit, Chinese, mathematics) but had no declared major. He recounts that when he was called in front of the dean after three and a half years of study and 135 hours of credits and asked, once again, if he intended to take a degree, he was told that if so, he needed to take speech, western civilization, and music appreciation. He replied that “I already know how to talk, I already know who Napoleon was and I already like music” and noted that “For that reason I hold no bachelor's degree. I was very sick of school." During this time he had a short-lived radio show on WOBC at Oberlin College.
In 1956 Frampton began correspondence with Ezra Pound after becoming interested in the literary generation of the 1880s. In the fall of 1957, he moved to Washington D.C. where he visited Ezra Pound almost daily at St. Elizabeth’s hospital where Pound was finishing part of his Cantos. There, Frampton writes that he was “privy to a most meaningful exposition of the poetic process by an authentic member of the ‘generation of the ‘80’s.’At the same time, I came to understand that I was not a poet.”
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