A celebrated return of Robert Franks seminal photobook The Americans to Apertures catalogone of the most important bodies of photographic work ever made. In the nearly seven decades since its publication in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Franks The Americans has become one of the most influential and enduring works of American photography. Through eighty-three photographs taken across the country, Frank unveiled an America that had gone previously unacknowledgedconfronting its people with an underbelly of racial inequality, corruption, injustice, and the stark reality of the American dream. Franks point of viewat once startling and tenaciousis imbued with humanity and lyricism, painting a poignant and incomparable portrait of the nation at a turning point.
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