13/10/2022
- The Americans by Robert Frank, 1959. Changing the very nature of photography as a medium by showing how photography could be personal and real, it captures the quintessential America of the mid-1950s. The sequence of the photos unfolds like an epic poem and turns everyday places and unknown faces into profound symbols of American culture. It portrays the gap between the American dream and normal life leading Frank’s critics at the time to label his book anti-American. Today it still stands as a piece of work that influenced just about every street photographer that followed.
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