In an interview with Art in America in 1996, Robert Frank talked about the photo below from The Americans.
I am still affected by that one photograph of the man on the hill in San Francisco, the way he looked back at me. I think that's why that's my favorite picture in the book. But it was, you know, forty years ago, a long time ago, a different time.
Robert Frank - from The Americans, San Francisco, 1956
The Americans
first published in 1958 and 1959, changed the course of 20th-century photography. John Szarkowski, critic, author and curator at MOMA said that Robert Frank established a new iconography for contemporary America. Other books by Robert Frank include, Peru: Photographs
and Paris
.The photograph below was one of the last still photographs Frank made before he devoted his creative energy to filmmaking in the early 1960s.
Fourth of July, Coney Island, 1958
Robert Frank (American, born Switzerland, 1924)
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