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© Edward Keating, Robert Frank and June Leaf at the Pingyao International Photography Festival, in Pingyao, China, 2008

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Robert Frank, the photographic master, the last human being it’s been said to discover anything new behind a viewfinder, collapsed in a filthy Chinese soup shop and no one had thought to bring along a camera.

- from Robert Frank’s Unsentimental Journey by Charlie LeDuff for Vanity Fair

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Recent profiles in Vanity Fair and the New York Times of Robert Frank, his career and the 50th anniversary publication of The Americans (available from Steidl).   The Americans will be featured in upcoming exhibitions to the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, and later at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.  In addition to the photographs, the exhibition will present all 81 contact sheets (out of the 767 rolls of film) from The Americans.

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Robert Frank’s Unsentimental Journey by Charlie LeDuff in the April 2008 issue of Vanity Fair.

Robert Frank’s Snapshots From the American Road by Philip Gefter in New York Times, including audio commentary by Robert Frank on The Americans.