the frank americans

cover of the American version of the book, published in 1959

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From Jack Kerouac's introduction to The Americans:

"Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a big sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank with the tragic poets of the world."

cover of the original version of the book, published in France in 1958