Gift from the artist to the present owner, 1989
The Americans, no. 58
Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, pp. 281, 476, Contact no. 58
Akron Art Museum, Robert Frank and American Politics, p. 18
Aperture, Robert Frank, frontispiece
Greenough and Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out, pp. 129, 180
Tucker and Brookman, Robert Frank: New York to Nova Scotia, p. 33
Gee, Photography of the Fifties, cover, p. 156
Green, American Photography, A Critical History, 1945 to the Present, p. 79
Kismaric, American Politicians: Photographs from 1843 to 1993, p. 151
Newhall, The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present Day, p. 200
Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs, pp. 176-177
Szarkowski, The Photographer's Eye, p. 152
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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