Robert Frank
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| His most notable work, the 1958 book titled [[The Americans (photography)|''The Americans'']], earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day [[Alexis de Tocqueville|de Tocqueville]] for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society. | His most notable work, the 1958 book titled [[The Americans (photography)|''The Americans'']], earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day [[Alexis de Tocqueville|de Tocqueville]] for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society. | ||
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| - | Critic [[Sean O'Hagan (journalist)|Sean O'Hagan]], writing in ''[[The Guardian]]'' in 2014, said ''The Americans'' "changed the nature of photography, what it could say and how it could say it. [ ... ] it remains perhaps the most influential photography book of the 20th century." | ||
| Frank later expanded into film and video and experimented with manipulating photographs and [[photomontage]]. | Frank later expanded into film and video and experimented with manipulating photographs and [[photomontage]]. | ||
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Robert Frank (November 9, 1924 – September 9, 2019) was a Swiss photographer and documentary filmmaker, who became an American binational.
His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society.
Frank later expanded into film and video and experimented with manipulating photographs and photomontage.
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