On a recent trip to Western America, I visited the MOMA in San Francisco and I discovered the photographer (and later Film Maker) Robert Frank for the very first time. His master piece The Americans was on display. The 50 odd photographs were taken during three different trips around the US in the 50’s.
It’s quite hard to describe the feelings that you get from exposing yourself to these images. Maybe, what stroke me the most about them was the feeling of being in front of a very big picture rather than tens of them.
In fact, the Americans feels more like a film, one where you can see each frame and each one tells you a different story.

Never a country had been depicted so truthfully as America under the lenses of Robert Frank .

A couple of links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frank

The Americans

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