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monadic2onAug 27, 2020

> But it’s why it took an immigrant to produce Frank’s The Americans to follow on the artistic groundwork layed by the Pubic Works Administration in the depression years.

I never put this together before, thanks!

2bitencryptiononSep 10, 2019

No way. I JUST bought a copy of The Americans two days ago. I know this isn't an interesting comment to read, but I can't help it. It was on sale for less than $20. I imagine there will be a rush to snatch up copies in the wake of the news, so get it while you can.

tokenadultonJuly 4, 2015

This 2009 NPR story about Robert Frank and his book of photographs The Americans is also interesting:

http://www.npr.org/2009/02/13/100688154/americans-the-book-t...

"The Americans showed a different America than the wholesome, nonconfrontational photo essays offered in some popular magazines. Frank's subjects weren't necessarily living the American dream of the 1950s: They were factory workers in Detroit, transvestites in New York, black passengers on a segregated trolley in New Orleans. Frank didn't even get much support from the art world, he recalls.

"'The Museum of Modern Art wouldn't even sell the book,' Frank says. 'But the younger people caught on.'"

mc32onJuly 4, 2015

Robert Frank's The Americans provides a great portrait of America back in the 50's. He was Swiss (now American) and made a cross country trip and documented American life in different paces. He is a great Photographer, however, I think his having been new and thus outsider, he was able to show a different facet of America from the 50s. "THe Americans" is a preeminent work of documentary photography. To this day photographers use it as a measuring stick for documentary photography.

This is why many don't agree with how people tend to deride either western or asian documentary photographers who go to (necessarily poorer countries) by calling it "tourist documentary photography," exploitative, etc. An outsider has a better and sharper eye for what is askew in a place foreign to them.

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