THE AMERICANS Robert Frank

A masterpiece in the history of photography, this book offers an exciting portrait of America in the 1950s as a road movie .

'The Americans' was conceived during the years 1955 and 1956. First published in 1958, it did not take long to become a landmark, the most influential photography book in the world and a touchstone of American identity.

Robert Frank , who traveled the roads of 48 North American states taking photographs thanks to a scholarship granted to him by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, conceived this project as a result of his relationship with the beat generation , after meeting personalities such as Bill Brandt, Walker Evans or the poet Allen Ginsberg. The purpose of his trips was to photograph ordinary people in their daily lives. A parade in New Jersey, a funeral in South Carolina, shop windows in Washington, a cocktail party in New York, highways in Idaho, a picnic in California, Tennessee, Utah...