Day Two: Robert Frank

Robert Frank spent most of his photography career capturing the social distress of the 1950s. His book, The Americans, focused on the disparity between the social ideal of contentedness with the prevailing loneliness found on the streets. His work went in line with the distress of the Beat generation and Frank even worked with Jack Kerouac on the introduction. I find Frank's manipulation of faces by obscuring them strengthens his visual rhetoric and make his photographs unforgettable.