In 1955, Swiss photographer Robert Frank traveled around the United States on a Guggenheim Fellowship. The images he created were published first in France in 1958, and then the following year in America. Highly controversial in its day, "The Americans" gave us a much needed outsiders view of who we are as a people.
Frank is an incredibly skilled image maker, able communicate on many different levels with a single image. As a piece of social history this is a very important document, I love the photographs of normal people, and the observations on American culture of the time. Much like one of Caroline Morris' post on ominous people I too love to think about the stories behind an image and why what is happening is happening. So this book is full of possiblities and questions.
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As you know I love this style of photography. Mary Ellen Mark is another photographer who captures a darker side of American culture, think you may like her work too...
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