Which writer wrote the introduction for Robert Frank's influential photography book The Americans (1958) that contained images from Frank's travels across the US?
The Americans (photography) "Popular Photography", for one, derided Frank's images as "meaningless blur, grain, muddy exposures, drunken horizons and general sloppiness." This stands in contrast to Walker Evans' "American Photographs", a direct inspiration to Frank, with its rigidly framed images shot via large-format viewcamera. Though sales were also poor at first, Kerouac's introduction helped it reach a larger audience because of the popularity of the Beat phenomenon. Over time and through its inspiration of later artists, "The Americans" became considered a seminal work in American photography and art history, and the work with which Frank is most clearly identified. Sociologist Howard S. Becker
The Americans (photography) endpaper. As he has done for every edition of "The Americans", Frank changed the cropping of many of the photographs, usually including more information, and two slightly different photographs were used. The Americans (photography) The Americans is a photographic book by Robert Frank which was highly influential in post-war American photography. It was first published in France in 1958, and the following year in the United States. The photographs were notable for their distanced view of both high and low strata of American society. The book as a whole created a complicated portrait of the period that was viewed as