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Parade–Hoboken, New Jersey
Robert Frank American, born Switzerland
Not on view
This photograph is the first work in The Americans (1958), and it sets the tone visually and culturally for the entire publication. In 1957 after Frank showed his friend Walker Evans a selection of rough prints from his travels, Evans immediately wrote a review of the series published in U.S. Camera Annual 1958: "Assuredly the gods who sent Robert Frank, so heavily armed, across the United States did so with a certain smile. . . . He shows high irony towards a nation that generally speaking has it not."
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