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ArtDecember 2009 Exhibition note by Nola Tully On "Looking In: Robert Franks's "The Americans" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In 1955, the Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank, then a slightly disillusioned thirty-one-year-old expat living in New York City, bought a used Ford coupe and took to the highways in search of the real America. With letters of reference from the artist Walker Evans, the photographer and curator Edward Steichen, and the Harper&rsquo ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 28 December 2009, on page 44 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Exhibition-note-4344
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