Influential photographer Robert Frank dead at 94
Robert Frank, the fiercely independent photographer and filmmaker whose bleak yet poetic book "The Americans" jolted the nation's self-image and sparked a photographic revolution, has died. He was 94.
In his life and art, the Swiss-born Frank followed his twin muses - intuition and imagination - wherever they led. During a career that spanned nearly seven decades, he shifted from still to moving pictures and back again, sometimes blurring the lines between the two as he experimented with content and form.
His death was confirmed by the Pace-MacGill Gallery in Manhattan, the New York Times reported.
"The Americans," which was first published in the late 1950s, is considered one of the most influential photography books of the 20th century. Its 83 black-and-white images - largely taken during a series of road trips - made the ordinary seem extraordinary and established
