Revisiting Robert Frank??s The Americans
Robert Frank. Political Rally, Chicago, 1956. MoCP Collection.
With the opening of the exhibition of images in Robert Frank??s book The Americans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, filmmaker Philippe Seclier??s An American Journey: Revisiting Robert Frank??s The Americans, a documentary which traces the book??s creation, has been released. In a New York Times film review, Mike Hale reports that Seclier spent two years with his video camera ??retracing? Frank??s journey across the United States, revisiting not only site specific locations but also a few of the people that appeared in Frank??s iconic images. Though the film??s release is confined to New York (for now?), you can view a few short clips from An American Journey here.
See more of Frank??s photographs at the MoCP collections database.