Hollis Frampton

[4] He grew up in Cleveland from the age of ten, and five years later, he entered Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where he was accepted on full scholarship.

[8] Entering Western Reserve University in 1954, Frampton took a variety of classes (Latin, Greek, German, French, Russian, Sanskrit, Chinese, mathematics) but had not declared a major.

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.

[11] Together, Frampton and Faller collaborated on several series including "Vegetable Locomotion"[13] and "False Impressions".

[14] As Frampton's photography moved toward exploring ideas of series and sets, he began to make films.

A few of them including Maxwell's Demon, Surface Tension, and Prince Rupert's Drops were based on concepts from science.

In an interview with Robert Gardner he stated a discomfort with that term because it was too broad and didn't accurately reflect the nature of his work.

The first is a reading (by Joyce Wieland) of the Bay State Primer, a puritan work for children to learn the alphabet.

Gradually the word stills are replaced by an active film shot, such as washing hands or peeling a tangerine until there are only moving images.

Poetic Justice explores a "cinema of the mind", wherein the film takes place in the viewers' imagination(s) as they read title cards.

An extremely rare artist book edition of Poetic Justice was printed by the Visual Studies Workshop.

The last few years of his life, Frampton taught at SUNY Buffalo, writing, working on Magellan and ongoing photographic projects with fellow artist and wife Marion Faller, and investigating the relationship between computers and art.

Much of Frampton's work was released by the Criterion Collection on April 26, 2012, as special edition Blu-ray Disc and DVD.