Robert Frank- The Americans
Robert Frank's photobook 'The Americans' was published in France in 1958 and the year after in the United states. His work documents a wide range of photos from the view of the higher and lower classes in American society. He ended up shooting around 27,000 photographs on his journey around America which finalised to a set of 83 black and white photographs.
He didn't follow traditional ideas of composition, framing, focus and exposure
which he has been critiqued for "some of the images are very underexposed, some are overexposed, which led to different graphic styles: an excess of grain, a lack of shadow detail,” said Yenelouis. An example can be seen on the left with the jukebox being very bright and lit up.
which he has been critiqued for "some of the images are very underexposed, some are overexposed, which led to different graphic styles: an excess of grain, a lack of shadow detail,” said Yenelouis. An example can be seen on the left with the jukebox being very bright and lit up.