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July 1, 2008

 
Robert Frank's "The Americans", a 50-year-old masterpiece
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Parade — Hoboken, New Jersey, from the Americans © Robert Frank


This is the photo book that redefined what a photo book could be — personal, poetic, real. Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, Robert Frank’s masterpiece still holds up — the selection of photos, and their sequence and pacing is fresh, rich, generous, and stunning.

Read our whole review here, and view a high-resolution slide show of several stellar examples from the 80-plus photos in the book.

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