See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! This exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Americans, Robert Frank’s influential series of black-and-white photographs made on a cross-country road trip in 1955–56. Although Frank’s depiction of American life was criticized when the book was released in the U.S. in 1959, the series of photographs soon became recognized as a masterpiece of street photography. Born in Switzerland in 1924, Frank is now considered one of the great living masters of photography. The exhibition features all 83 photographs published in The Americans and is the first time that this body of work is on view in New York.

Image: Robert Frank (American, born Switzerland, 1924). Trolley—New Orleans, 1955. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005 (2005.100.454). Photograph © Robert Frank, from “The Americans”