Robert Frank: the Americans August 31, 2009

In 1955, the Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank won a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation grant to photograph American people and places. For two years, Frank traveled by car throughout the United States, amassing over 20,000 negatives. The edited portfolio of 83 photographs was published in book form as Les Ameericains by Robert Delpire in France in 1958, and as The Americans in 1959 by Grove Press in New York.