Robert Frank, the influential Swiss-American photographer died yesterday at the age of 94. He was best known for his groundbreaking book, The Americans, which documented the people he met on his cross-country road trips in the mid-1950s. In black and white, with his spontaneous documentary-style, Frank captured the reality behind the myth of American life with such accuracy that the first American edition of the book required no text.
“With that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film.” – Jack Kerouac
