Les Américains. Histoire presents the entire collection—one hundred

presents the entire collection—one hundred and eighty-three works

they would be perfectly suited to Aeschylus's eponymous tragedy

An English translation of the chapters

His history painting

Les Américains. Histoire presents the entire collection—one hundredIn 1955, Robert Frank crossed the United States. A cowboy, a tattooed man napping on the grass in a park, the suffering of a woman who has just buried a loved one, a shoeshine boy, a road, women toasting; only eighty four of his images were published, in 1958, to indifference. This book has since become a classic of photography. Deemed sad, perverse, even subversive by the American press of the time, its importance has nevertheless continued to grow