from Robert Frank's "The Americans"

"...as a shabby, unshaven, camera-toting foreigner driving through the Deep South with New York plates and a "smart-alecky attitude," Frank struck at least one local sheriff as a Communist agent—and was arrested in an Arkansas town on the Mississippi border."

Robert Frank's Real America

J. Hoberman takes on the photographer who changed the way we look at—and depict—ourselves.  

 

Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans September 22, 2009–January 3, 2010 Galleries for Drawings, Prints, and Photographs and The Howard Gilman Gallery, 2nd floor

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

 

 

 

gs, Prints, and Photographs and The Howard Gilman Gallery, 2nd flo