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Robert Frank, photographer of the "Americans", dies

Robert Frank, photographer of the “Americans”, dies

American photographer Robert Frank, one of the most famous of the 20th century, and a pioneer of documentary photography with the book The Americans, died in Inverness, USA, on Monday, September 9, 2019 at the age of 94. His death was confirmed to the New York Times by the Pace-MacGill Gallery, which represented him.

Parade – Hoboken, New Jersey, 1955 © Robert Frank, from The Americans  Robert Frank, born in Switzerland in 1924, arrived in New York at the age of 23 as an artistic refugee. The United States is above all the subject of his book - which ha...

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