Robert Frank: The Americans

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Aperture commemorates the one-hundred-year anniversary of Robert Frank's birth with this new edition of The Americans

First published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, The Americans has been extolled as the most groundbreaking photobook of all time for defining an entire generation. With eighty-three commanding photographs, Robert Frank redefined twentieth-century photography and unveiled an America built on the segregation of wealth, racism, and civil strife. Yet, his images- of everyday American life in the 1950s also captured a simple beauty, revealing a poetic and dynamic portrait of American life. At once intuitive and tenacious, critical and celebratory, The Americans continues to reverberate throughout the landscape of contemporary photography almost seven decades later.