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Influential Documentary Photographer Robert Frank Dies At 94

In The Americans, a book of photos taken while road-tripping across the country in the 1950s, his portrait of the United States was dark, grainy and free from nostalgia. He died on Monday night.
Photographer Robert Frank holds a camera in 1954. His photo book, <em>The Americans,</em> changed the way people saw photography and the way they saw the U.S.<em> </em>Frank died on Monday at the age of 94.

Influential photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank has died at the age of 94. He died of natural causes on Monday night

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