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DAY 323 | FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS |
Robert Frank (1924–)
AN AMERICAN STATEMENT
In 1955, at the prompting of friend and fellow photographer Walker Evans, Robert Frank secured a Guggenheim grant to travel across America.1 Over the next two years, Frank took over 28,000 shots, eventually edited into a book titled The Americans. It was a fresh yet skeptical view of American society, which the Swiss-born photographer found to be fast, lonely, and far too concerned with money.
Frank’s distinctive photographic style, with its asymmetrical compositions and blurred edges was completely unconventional at the time. Some say it is the visual counterpart ...
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