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Robert Frank Swiss-American, born 1924 Frank emigrated to the United States in 1947 and worked as a photographer for the fashion and advertising industries in New York, before leaving everything behind to travel extensively in South America and Europe. In 1955 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to drive through the United States, with his family in tow, photographing the people, places and objects that he encountered.		Thomas Ruff August Sander Bernd and Hilla Becher Thomas Struth Fazal Sheikh Michael Schmidt Robert Frank Stephen Shore Walker Evans Nicholas Nixon William Eggleston   Philip-Lorca diCorcia Robert Adams Albert Renger-Patzsch Lee Friedlander Lewis Baltz Paul Graham Garry Winogrand Andreas Gursky Boris Mikhailov Diane Arbus Rineke Dijkstra Martin Parr

Out of 28,000 frames, he selected 83 for his book The Americans published in the United States in 1959 with an introduction by Jack Kerouac, author of the cult novel On the Road. The deliberately grainy quality, apparently casual compositions and highly personal, observational style of these photographs have established The Americans as perhaps the most influential photography book of the last 50 years. In the late 1950s, Frank turned his attention to cinema. His films include Pull My Daisy (1959), which he made with his friends the Beat poets, and a documentary portrait of the Rolling Stones.