Robert Frank: The Photographer Behind ‘Exile On Main St.’
Robert Frank: The Photographer Behind ‘Exile On Main St.’
(Frank in 1996)
In 1955 Robert Frank, a Swiss immigrant who came to the United States to become a photographer, was given a Guggenheim scholarship to find, according to his application, “what one naturalized American finds to see in the United States that signifies the kind of civilization born here and spreading elsewhere.”
It would be a year long road trip, with just his Super 8 camera and…
