Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Americans (1958), by Robert Frank, was a highly influential book in post-war American photography. Frank selected 83 images from many taken during a two-year crosscountry journey, while under a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation. 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 skeptical of contemporary values and evocative of ubiquitous loneliness. Beat author Jack Kerouac contributed the introduction to The Americans. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.