A Portrait of America That Still Haunts, Decades Later – The New York Times

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A Portrait of America That Still Haunts, Decades Later

How, in a single photograph, Robert Frank captured the ongoing story of a divided nation.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/12/arts/design/robert-frank-americans.html

Robert Frank chose this image for the cover of his eye-opening book of 83 photographs, “The Americans,” published in 1959. He had crossed America by car, seeing it as an outsider, a Swiss who left Zurich in 1947 in search of broader horizons.