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December 2009

Exhibition note

by Nola Tully

On "Looking In: Robert Franks's "The Americans" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Robert Frank, U.S. 285, New Mexico (1955) © Robert Frank, from The Americans

 

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 ...

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Nola Tully is a writer, photographer, and photo editor living in New York City.


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This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 28 December 2009, on page 44

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