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 invented in the middle of the 19th century. Culled from some 27,000 images, made during a two-year trip across the United States, “The Americans” captured the United States not as a vibrant world power — muscular, euphoric and a beacon to the world — but rather as a nation of festering class and racial divisions — anxious, wary and suspicious. The people photographed were lost, or angry, uncertain how to navigate the technological, cultural and political changes of modernity.
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