Robert Frank - Les Américains - 2007

In 1955, Robert Frank traveled across the United States. A cowboy, a tattooed man taking a nap on the grass in a park, the suffering of a woman who has just buried a loved one, a shoe shiner, a road, women toasting; only eighty-four of his images were published in 1958, in indifference. This book has since become a classic of photography. Considered sad, perverse, or even subversive by the American press at the time, its importance has only grown over the years. Photographers, critics, and the general public have hailed Robert Frank as a true innovator. This book is not a reportage. It does not tell the story of a man's journey across the United States but gathers a series of notes taken on the spot, by a raw nerve.