Eight Photographers on Their Favorite Image from Robert Frank’s “The Americans” – The New Yorker

Eskenazi continued to send out the question to other prominent photographers, collecting responses from hundreds of photographers in all. Their thoughtful, illuminating comments on Frank’s work are compiled in the book “The Americans List,” whose second edition was recently released. “ ‘The Americans’ is probably the one book that connects more photographers than any other,” Eskenazi writes. “I discovered that many of the answers revealed much more about the photographers themselves.” Here are some of our favorite responses to three of the book’s indelible images: