Robert Frank – 1924-2019

Robert Frank was a Swiss born photographer a, who travelled the world before he finally settled in New York and became an American dual national. His first work as a photographer was for Harper’s Bazaar but his most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank his fame and many accolades for his fresh and nuanced outsider’s view of American society.

Some time later on a visit to Britain he recorded life in London and Wales where he captured life in the raw following WWII.

He wrote:

“War is over; the heroic French population reaffirms superiority. Love, Paris, and Flowers … but London was black, white, and gray, the elegance, the style, all present in front of always changing fog. Then I met a man from Wales talking about the Miners and I had read How Green Was My Valley. This became my only try to make a Story.”

– Robert Frank, letter to the author, May 29, 2002

Introduction to London/Wales Philip Brookman – Steidl Edition 2017

You can see more of his work here.