Halsted Gallery, Bloomfield Hills
Visions of Hope & Despair, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 25 March- 30 May 1995
National Gallery of Art, Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, cover and pl. 1
National Gallery of Art, Robert Frank: Moving Out, p. 175
Pantheon Books, The Lines of My Hand, n.p.
Scalo, The Americans, cover and pl. 1
Szarkowski, Photography Until Now, p. 258
Szarkowski, The Photographer's Eye, p. 155
Weski and Dexter, Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph, p. 101
Weski and Liesbrock, How You Look At It: Photographs of the 20th Century, p. 199
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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