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EXCLUSIVE: Never-Before-Seen Video of Robert Frank

Recently unearthed footage from nearly 40 years ago shows the great photographer talking about honesty and cruelty in photography—and in The Americans. Special …

On the Road

In 1955, photographers Robert Frank and Todd Webb set out to capture a rapidly changing America. Now, for the first time, a new …

You’re Wrong about Robert Frank

If you thought the master photographer was cantankerous and curmudgeonly, you haven’t seen his softer side.

Treasure and Junk

Which trinkets did Robert Frank and Todd Webb keep for decades—and why? The stories behind the objects.

Noble Savages

Charles Traub’s book “Skid Row”, gathers photographs he took in Uptown Chicago in the late 1970s, and on the Bowery, in New York …

The Strangest Species

This year’s edition of PhEST festival in Monopoli, southern Italy, revolves around one main question: what does it mean to be human today? …

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© Rachel Fleminger Hudson

Rachel Fleminger Hudson’s Seventies

Until October 1, British photographer and video artist Rachel Fleminger Hudson takes over the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. Her staging, oscillating between the authentic and the fictional, takes us back to Thatcher’s England.

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On the Road

In 1955, photographers Robert Frank and Todd Webb set out to capture a rapidly changing America. Now, for the first time, a new exhibition in Houston shows their photos together — and reveals how what they saw forever changed their view of the country.

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