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Robert Frank

  • Kenan Malik

    Farewell, Robert Frank, a true American revolutionary

    Kenan Malik
  • Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1955, from Robert Frank’s The Americans, first published in 1958.

    The big picture
    The big picture: America as seen by Robert Frank

  • Hollow lives … a restaurant on US Route 1 leaving Columbia, South Carolina, from The Americans, published in 1958.

    Robert Frank: the outsider genius whose photographs laid bare America's soul

  • Trolley - New Orleans, 1955.

    Robert Frank: a life's work in pictures

  • 1948

    Robert Frank obituary

  • 1956, an image from the exhibition Robert Frank: Unseen at C/O Berlin Foundation, Berlin, from 13 September until 30 November.

    Robert Frank, revolutionary American photographer, dies aged 94

  • Midnight at the Crossroads
Press 05. Cristina de Middel & Bruno Morais, Untitled from the Midnight at the Crossroads series, Brasil, 2016. Courtesy of the artists.

    Global visions: the 49th Arles photography festival – in pictures

    Robert Frank, Laura Henno, and Feng Li are featured at huge event covering everything from African spirituality to marriage in China and death in Ukraine
  • Nusch Éluard by Man Ray.

    The Radical Eye review – Elton John's ravishing photography collection

    Switch House, Tate Modern, London
    From the tears of Man Ray to the Paris of Robert Frank and the manspread of Salvador Dali, this astounding collection is a history of modernist photography
  • robert frank

    The Americans: Robert Frank's legendary photographs head to auction

    A rare set of 77 photographs from the book that transformed the way Americans viewed the nation are being sold in New York on Thursday
  • Gordon Parks,Drinking Fountains, Mobile, Alabama, 1956

    The very best of American photography – in pictures

    The greatest names in American photography, including Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus and Robert Franks are to be exhibited in one place as the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago turns 40
  • Winslow, Arizona, September 19, 2013, by Stephen Shore

    Sean O'Hagan on photography
    Shady character: how Stephen Shore taught America to see in living colour

    In the 70s, everyone hated Shore’s quirky photographs of everyday life because they weren’t in black and white. Now, a new retrospective shows how he became a modern master – and how the masses finally caught up with him
  • Bryce Dessner

    Music blog
    The National's Bryce Dessner on the American landscapes that inspire him

    Ahead of a concert series in London of new music exploring the American musical landscape, the musician selects seven works that provide fertile ground for his imagination
  • Robert Frank in America.

    Robert Frank at 90: the photographer who revealed America won't look back

    Filled with images of loneliness and shadow, Frank’s The Americans stands as one of photography’s greatest works
  • New York City, early 1950s.

    Robert Frank: the beauty and horror of 1950s America – in pictures

    Master photographer Robert Frank uncovered the extraordinary in everyday life on his travels around the US in the 1950s, from identical twins and moody commuters to the H of the Hollywood sign and a giant Joan Crawford. Here’s a selection of his remarkable photographs
  • Vanessa Winship She Dances on Jackson

    Sean O'Hagan on photography
    American beauty: Vanessa Winship's photos of still, small-town US life

    Winship used her Henri-Cartier Bresson prize money well: to fund a book, She Dances on Jackson, in which she has captured the silence at the heart of a clamorous nation

  • Meyerowitz

    Joel Meyerowitz: 'brilliant mistakes ... amazing accidents'

    The photographer talks to Sean O'Hagan about his new book, which celebrates his 50 years of finding the 'wow' factor in everyday places

  • Mishka Henner: Canal Street

    Sean O'Hagan on photography
    Mishka Henner's erased images: art or insult?

    Sean O'Hagan: The artist has caused a stir with his latest photography book, which takes a Robert Frank classic and, well, erases bits of it

  • Shoe gaze … detail from Danny Lyon's Shakedown, Ramsey Unit.

    Danny Lyon: 'I put myself through an ordeal in order to create something'

    The great photographer, famous for documenting the civil rights struggle and riding with bikers in the 60s, grants a rare interview to Edward Helmore

  • Tom Stoddart’s shot of a mother evacuating her son from Sarajevo in 1992

    The artists' artist
    The artists' artist: reportage photographers

    Leading snappers choose their favourite living reportage photographer

  • Blackpool, 1982 by Chris Steele-Perkins

    Sean O'Hagan on photography
    Something old, something new: the year's best photography books

    Sean O'Hagan picks his favourite photography books– from reissues of classic editions to a stunning collection of mobile-phone snaps

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