My head always turns when I see a photography book sitting face out on a shelf. It’s probably a throwback from when I was little and only liked books with pictures. But now I can appreciate “picture books” with more grown-up themes. The latest one I’ve come across is a re-issue of The Americans [2]by Robert Frank with black-and-white pictures from the 1950s. The faces of the people and the moments Frank captured are sometimes comical, sometimes haunting. Most of all they give you a picture of who we Americans were not so long ago.
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[1] http://www.hcpl.net/users/angel-hill
[2] http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&aspect=subtab13&term=americans%20robert%20frank%20national%20gallery&index=.GH#focus
[3] http://www.hcpl.net/category/tags/america
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[5] http://www.hcpl.net/category/tags/photography
[6] http://www.hcpl.net/category/tags/usa
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