Reviews
His work is revolutionary in showing an America that was not seen, but also creating a way of seeing in photography that was new, powerful and charged., The photographs from his seminal book The Americans, which took a critical look at our nation's life in the 1950s, are timeless. His work continues to inspire new generations to follow his path to see what is invisible in America., ...Robert Frank changed history with the 83 images that appeared in his stark breakthrough " The Americans ., The exhibition is as comprehensive as it is ephemeral featuring a wealth of photographs, all of Frank's books since 1947, and his films that he began focusing on in the early 1960s., I can't think of a single living artist who has as secure a status in his or her chosen field, and I doubt there will be one for some time., That is the miracle of great socially committed art: It addresses our sources of deepest unease, helps us to confront what we cannot organize or explain by making all of it unforgettable., The Americans challenged the presiding midcentury formula for photojournalism. Mr. Frank's photographs -- of lone individuals, teenage couples, groups at funerals and odd spoors of cultural life -- were cinematic, immediate, off-kilter and grainy, like early television transmissions of the period., [Frank] pioneered a whole new subject matter that we [now] define as icons: cars, jukeboxes, even the road itself.
