The Americans

In this world, you will have many experiences. I have found that one of the most important things you can do while you are out in the world experiencing these different things is to take as many pictures as possible. There is no question that Robert Frank's The Americans is the most famous and influential photography book ever published. It was 1959 when the book first came out: a series of deceptively simple photographs that Frank took on a trip through America in 55 and 56, pictures of normal people, everyday scenes: lunch counters, bus depots, cars, and the strangely familiar faces of people we don't quite know but have seen somewhere. They were pictures taken from the window of a car in 1955 that saw the American way of life as we hadn't yet quite been able to see it ourselves.