America and Other Myths: Photographs by Robert Frank and Todd Webb, 1955

by Lisa Volpe

Robert Frank's and Todd Webb's parallel 1955 projects to photograph America are considered in the context of mid-twentieth-century American culture

In 1955 two photographers were awarded grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation to embark on trips across the United States. Robert Frank (1924-2019) drove coast to coast, photographing the highways, bars, and people that formed the basis for his widely admired publication The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300270895
• ISBN13: 9780300270891
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.2" x 10.9"