The Americans (1958) wasn’t the first photobook Robert Frank ever made. That would be 40 Fotos (1946), a hand-bound compilation of work which the revolutionary American photographer produced while ...

NEW YORK — In 1960, Robert Frank published a slim volume of 83 photographs called “The Americans,” which remains one of the most absorbing and disturbing photographic projects since the medium was ...

Robert Frank, “Parade, Hoboken, New Jersey,” 1955-1956. (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Target Collection of American Photography/June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation) Review by Sebastian Smee The ...

A major Dutch museum is staging a huge exhibition of American photography that explores the tension between how the United States would like to see itself, and how it really looks. By Nina Siegal The ...

The U-turn at the heart of “Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue” at MoMA. Allen Ginsberg, Robert Frank, his Bleeker [sic] street home, New York (January 1984) displayed in "Life Dances On: Robert ...

The Museum of Modern Art is celebrating the centennial of the birth of renowned photographer and filmmaker, Robert Frank—born on November 9, 1924 in Zurich, Switzerland—with its first exhibition ...

Some birthdays are worth extended celebration. Robert Frank’s certainly is. Frank was one of the most influential photographers of the second half of the 20th century, thanks largely, though not ...

A photo from Frank’s “The Americans” shows why he was the prince of blur. The Swiss American photographer Robert Frank (1924-2019) was a beacon of artistic empathy. He was also the prince of blur — ...

NEW YORK — It makes perfect sense that someone who’d changed the face of an art form would then want to keep changing his own approach to that art form. Once Everest has been climbed, why climb it ...

"In the mid-1950s, Swiss-born New Yorker Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across post-war America, capturing thousands of photographs of all levels of a rapidly changing society.

"Brush" -- Flags and mirrors -- A step away from them -- Road trips and mind trips -- Early morning in the universe -- Like jumping in the water -- First thought, best thought -- The network of human ...