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If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, consider supporting us as a member. Join Us With Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue , the Museum of Modern Art makes what might seem like an unusual decision: to stage its first-ever solo exhibition of Robert Frank while largely omitting his best-known body of work, The Americans . Published in the United States in 1959, with an introduction by the Beat writer Jack Kerouac, The Americans is arguably the most influential book of American road photography in the history of the medium.
When one thinks of Frank today, these are likely the images that come to mind: faces looking out at us from the segregated New Orleans trolley car on the book’s cover, an American flag obscuring a woman’s face as she stands in a window, Frank’s critically distanced vision of an unequal consumerist society decked out in stars and stripes and.