Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, 1986
The Americans, no. 59
Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, p. 282, Contact no. 59
Scalo, Robert Frank: Moving Out, p. 155
Galassi, Walker Evans & Company, pl. 230
Kismaric, American Politicians: Photographs from 1843 to 1993, p. 154
Papageorge, Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence, p. 33
Swiss • 1924
As one of the leading visionaries of mid-century American photography, Robert Frank has created an indelible body of work, rich in insight and poignant in foresight. In his famed series The Americans, Frank travelled the United States, capturing the parade of characters, hierarchies and imbalances that conveyed his view of the great American social landscape.
Frank broke the mold of what was considered successful documentary photography with his "snapshot aesthetic." It is Frank's portrayal of the United States through grit and grain that once brought his work to the apex of criticism, but has now come to define the art of documentary photography.
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