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 | Anniversaries: The Americans
November 10, 2008 - It is a commonplace of anthropology that it often takes an outsider to show a group of insiders something about themselves...So it was when the photographer Robert Frank arrived in the United States in 1947. Born in Zurich to a German Jewish father and Swiss mother, Frank moved to New York, then as now the true capital of the world, in his early 20s...In 1955 and '56, he undertook a Kerouackian journey across a wide swath of the heartland, culminating when, on his return to New York with a portfolio in hand, he ran into Jack Kerouac himself, who took a look and offered to write an accompanying text. The result was the book The Americans
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